{"id":1132,"date":"2022-04-01T13:26:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:15:13","slug":"the-art-of-handpoke-interview-with-nia-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/el-arte-del-handpoke-entrevista-a-nia-dots","title":{"rendered":"The art of handpoke: Interview with Nia Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"

The art of handpoke: Interview with Nia Dots<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Her personal and delicate style reveals a person who is not at all afraid of the word experiment.<\/h2>\n\n\n
1 April 2022 by Olga Sala<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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To meet Xenia, the artist behind Nia Dots<\/a>, we just have to follow the dots. And that's because Xenia is a true hand-poke artist or, as she explains to us, tattooing done by hand, dot by dot, with no tricks or gimmicks. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Tell us about yourself and your work. Where did your vocation start? Any first memories?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I am Xenia, although on social media and behind my project I am known as Nia Dots. I work as a tattoo artist using the handpoke technique, which is to say I tattoo by hand and without the use of machines, dot by dot, just as it has been done traditionally in different places and cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My vocation was born out of a deep desire to tattoo myself. I remember how, after a bad experience getting tattooed\u2014not so much because of the result, but because of how I was treated\u2014I began to develop the idea of being able to do it myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, getting tattooed is a magical moment; it is very intimate and it is essential that this is taken into account during the process. So one day I bought all the materials, started experimenting\u2026 and here I am today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What do you find most satisfying about your work?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

There are many things that satisfy me about my work. One of them is the connection I build with people, getting to know the stories behind each tattoo. But also the opportunity for constant growth, for creating\u2026 and being able to do it anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to choose just one tattoo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is your creative process like, what are your sources of inspiration, any particular music while working?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

It totally depends on whether I'm working on a design for a specific person or if I'm drawing freely. In the first case, I always try to enter that person's world: get to know their tastes, find out what message or story is behind the tattoo they're looking for... mind you, if there is one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My sources of inspiration are always: nature, the intangible and music. Sometimes I try to get music to generate specific states in me and, from there, I draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Favourite colour, book, film and record - in that order! ;D<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Purple colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don't have a favourite book, but Maia is going to the Amazon<\/em> it was a book that really left a mark on me when I was little and The Little Prince<\/em> o The Art of Loving <\/em>they are the ones I have read most repeatedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for music, it goes in phases, but not long ago I discovered a band: Hermanos Guti\u00e9rrez and since then it appears on all my playlists or I play it on a loop while I design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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