My proposal is a large scale project that I aim to begin and chip away at until i reach my goal. I call it Sacred, or Visionary Tattooing.  

The end product is a fully functional and licensed space for cultivating spiritual experiences surrounding the act of tattooing.  The client, through consultation and collaboration with me, will design their own ceremony to receive the most from their tattoo.  Below is a section I have written on what exactly I mean by "Visionary Tattoo" 

To ask “What is Visionary Tattoo?” we must first ask, “What is Visionary Art?”.  In short “Visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices and inner perception of the soul.”  It is art made in a spiritual space.  Where the art is not the end product, but the tool which is used to open your mind and spirit to what is beneath the surface of any canvas.  Visionary art is a guide to the esoteric, or the hidden.  Both artist and viewer are finding their own individual truths through the image before them.

Classic artists such as: William Blake, Salvador Dali’, Hieronymus Bosch depict timeless images applicable to anyone no matter culture, religion, or age.

Today Alex Grey is largely responsible for the spread of Visionary art into the Tattoo world.  He has opened the doors of his Chapel of Sacred Mirrors to tattoo artists and has collaborated to create Visionary Tattoo.  This method of transportation, transformation, healing, and spiritual awakening happening directly on the body, brings that person in direct contact with the art.

Using Visionary art on a client allows them to be directly transformed, both literally and energetically.  The body is altered, and if we allow that experience to take use to a higher state,  and the images we choose become us and transform us.  Visionary tattoo can be used for healing, strengthening, paying respects, embodying the spirit of an animal or other guiding force.  It becomes a meditation, moving past physical discomfort to achieve something greater, to open to something more than our mundane everyday experiences.  The act of tattooing is sacred, and when the artist and client alike treat it that way, the tattoo becomes a reminder of the greatness one finds during this journey.

I believe “it is the role of the artist to serve humanity like the ferryman Charon, leading his charges between two worlds.”

My project proposal is to create the space in which this can happen, in other words a tattoo studio.  But unlike other studios a large chunk of the clients time will be spent figuring out what kind of ceremony, (circle casting, music, candles, reiki, meditation, talking ..... the list goes on) will best help them to achieve their goal. ( a memorial for a loved one, becoming more grounded in life, taking on the energy of a totem animal, marking a new phase in life, ...again the possibilities are endless). 
The following images are recent tattoos that were done, the first to begin a sleeve that is dedicated to a brother who died, and the second the embody the characteristics of the animal: 

in the end i want to facilitate an extraordinary experience and the first step is setting up a physical location, and being checked out by the state, and paying for everything that goes into the creation of a tattoo studio. 

I don't feel I can express these ideas any better then Alex Grey in the following quote:

“The artist’s mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.

The artist attempts to make inner truths visible, audible, or sensible in some way, by manifesting them in the external, material world (through drawing, painting, song, etc.). To produce their finest works, artists lose themselves in the flow of creation from their inner worlds. The visionary artist creatively expresses her or his personal glimpses of the Divine Imagination.”

Thank you for your time and consideration. 
Leah