Why would you do that to yourself?
A reflection on the eyes that wander to the ink of my skin first before meeting my gaze.
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BY KASSANDRA KETCHUM
2025-2026 Portfolio
Last Updated August 2 2026
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I might just start replying that I simply exist
someone asked me what I do for a livingand i felt my mind arrest all thinkingalmost like watching a parade of thoughtssuddenly come to a halt due to a collision up aheadbecause how do I explain that I’m in between realmsand that money seems to never satisfy meso instead I sit in a field full…
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Kassandra has been tattooing since late 2019. An avid writer, artist and tarot reader, Kassandra considers herself to be a multidisciplinary artist.
When she’s not writing, drawing or tattooing, you can find Kass in the woods on her homestead with her husband, three dogs and three cats and a growing farm of chickens and goats in rural New Brunswick.
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