I’m Özgün, a tattoo artist based in Istanbul, and I’ve been tattooing for about eight years. Recently, my girlfriend and I opened our own private studio, Atelier Dimora, where we focus on creating ...

Have you ever glimpsed a small semicolon tattoo on someone’s wrist? While it may seem like an ordinary punctuation mark, the semicolon tattoo represents a symbolic movement far beyond basic grammar.

I first noticed a semicolon tattoo on a friend of mine when I asked her to share the meaning behind her art. She had some fun stories behind a couple of them and then she came to her semicolon on her ...