![]() “It’s the only way to keep people safe.”īecause New York is one of 22 states without formal hygienic requirements for tattooing, artists in Ithaca must take it upon themselves to eliminate health liabilities like hepatitis and HIV. “You assume that everyone who comes through your door has every disease known to man and some that were never discovered,” Enciso said. Each parlor, stocked with disinfectants, sterilization machines, soaps and rubber gloves, projects a scrubbed-down, doctor’s office aesthetic. ![]() Medusa Tattoo, along with Model Citizen, Stiehl’s Body Modification, The Hand of Fate and Sfumato Tattoo, holds itself to rigorous safety standards. ![]() Limiting the danger of disease - or more specifically, going to great lengths to choke, dissolve and burn its microscopic components - is what Enciso and other professional tattoo artists in downtown Ithaca do best. The owners hire a private company to maintain their equipment. Tattoo artist Jim Sidelinger finishes a tattoo on Marcellus, N.Y., resident Tony Esposito on Friday at Stiehl’s Body Modification. More than that, it’s a technical feat - one susceptible to disaster with each rhythmic puncture. It’s an arduously executed ritual in which every microscopic dot comes with a symbolism. Tattooing someone, according to Medusa Tattoo’s Cesar Enciso, is not simply about dragging a needle across the skin.
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