Grimes is shaking some new alien-inspired ink.
The 33-year-old singer “Oblivion” showed her painful tattoo on the back on Instagram on Monday morning: a tangle of white lines that represent “alien scars”.
“Don’t have a good photo because it hurts too much and I need to sleep haha, and it will be red for a few weeks, but it will be beautiful alien scars,” she captioned her photo of the new design.
The tattoo was done by artist Tweakt with help “from the alien computer brain” from Nusi Quero, an LA based “digital fashion artist”.
Quero shared some behind-the-scenes footage of the process on Instagram, calling the end result “a brave and beautiful decision and talisman. [Grimes] will carry armor from here, a spectral field that will affect and protect it in unknown ways, but no doubt with some benevolence. “
The artist explained that after Tweakt “drew the basic shapes on an iPad,” he turned them into 3D geometry, selected vertices on the shape, and guided and grew the decorations along and around the shapes … with a series of procedural operators. (math rules). “
The tattoo itself was done in a single session, Quero added.
This isn’t Grimes’ first alien tattoo; she also has an alien head on her left hand and the alchemy symbol for the planet Jupiter on her finger, in addition to tattoos inspired by “The Legend of Zelda”, “The Lord of the Rings” and more.
Grimes and her partner, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, welcomed their first child together in May 2020. The couple initially named their son X → A-12, but were forced to change it to X AE A-XII because California law prohibits special characters and numbers in names.