#6 - Tamara Santibañez, Tattoo Conjurer
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Tamara Santibañez is a tattoo artist who believes that the language of symbols can help people heal and reveal. She draws from the iconography of fetish, punk, and Chicanx art, and brings outcasts and otherworlds into the spotlight. In this episode, she discusses tattooing as spell craft, invoking Santa Muerte, and making magic in the margins.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Witch Wave is brought to you by Chase and Scout. |
| 0:05.0 | Have you been searching for the perfect Amullet or Talisman to carry you through your day and guide you at night? |
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| 0:37.0 | you might be one too. |
| 0:40.0 | you might be one too. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real, |
| 0:46.0 | and reality is stranger than dreams. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Pam Grossman, and this is the witch wave. Oh, inside you can add me a phrase. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, on shakes in the night. |
| 1:08.0 | A mountain beep, to my feet to my feet to my face. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh, rude in me. |
| 1:18.0 | You can make and a place. Hello and welcome to the witch wave. Happy New Year everyone. It is 2018 and I have a really good feeling about this year. We started it on a full moon |
| 1:35.8 | so hopefully you're feeling nice and supercharged and numerically speaking in |
| 1:42.4 | Chinese mythology the number 8 is very lucky. |
| 1:46.5 | And in Judaism, the number 18 is one of the most magical numbers there is. |
| 1:53.4 | 18 is associated with Chai. |
| 1:56.3 | That's right, 10 years of Hebrew school, |
| 1:58.3 | got my ha going on. |
| 2:00.4 | And Chai is the word for life. |
| 2:04.0 | So some of you might be familiar with the toast |
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