This project began when artist Boryana Petkova noticed that her lifeline on the palm of her hand was interrupted in the middle. Petkova decides to correct it and continue it with a tattoo, out of her own free will.

Iskra Blagoeva suggests to continue the line through her body, as an act of trust, bonding and sharing. This marks the initiation of the project, born from this complementarity between the two artists. It took place on 31.12.2021 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The idea is to create a sisterhood, manifested by the lines running through the bodies of different women, each one selected and invited by the one before. Gathered together, they will thus create an endlessly transforming drawing that will remind and visualize the already existing powerful bond between women. The roles are also being reversed, from a professional and personal point of view: artist – curator, drawing – surface, mother – daughter, friend – colleague, author – performer, etc.

I was invited to be a part of the project as a handpoke tattoo artist, and tattoo the S.I.S. line on multiple women from all walks of life who wanted o be a part of the project.

My entry in the the project began as a collaboration with Boryana Petkova & Joana P. R. Neves, for the exhibition Hyperdeawing, a dialogue between Boryana Petkova and Katrin Ströbel, curated by Joana P. R. Neves Frac Picardie, Amiens, France

Making my first continuation of Boryana’s lifeline by handpoking a new branch on Petkova, which was passed over onto my mother, Joana P. R. Neves and curator of the exhibition, and then from my mother to myself.