While Yatzil Elizalde started her career as a visual artist specializing in murals and illustrations, the 25-year-old Mexico native has since branched out into tattoos. At her shop White Light, in Hermosillo, she creates some of the trippiest double-vision ink you’ll ever see. If you’re a tattoo enthusiast, you’ll probably want to book a trip down there ASAP.
- Elizade calls it “the blurry effect.” Talking to Insider, the artist says that the double-vision tattoos sometimes represent how she herself sees the world. “It’s going to sound weird, but there are some times in my life when I see things that way – ‘dizzy.'” That doesn’t sound weird to me at all. I totally get it!
- Her creative process is insane. To create the double-vision look, Elizade draws the same image two or three times, using fine, intricate lines to slightly offset each version so that the full tattoo looks super trippy and you have to squint to see it clearly. It’s simple but really clever!
- She does all of her work freehand. Despite how hard it must be to focus on creating identical images only slightly removed from one another, Elizade does it all freehand and doesn’t get dizzy at all. “[I love] imagining that people can get the feeling that their sight is getting blurry when they look at my tattoos. I feel good that people can experience this through my art,” she explained.
- Elizade has completed roughly 40 double-vision tattoos so far. Something tells me she’ll be doing plenty more moving forward. If you’d like to get your own, the price will depend on the size of the artwork as well as the location on your body. She tends to charge between $250 and $350 per hour, which seems pretty reasonable considering the level of skill that goes into her tattoos.
- Follow her on Instagram for more of her work. Elizade maintains both a personal account as well as an account for White Light, and both of them feature some incredible work and are well worth a follow. Just FYI, she does “regular” tattoos as well, and they’re equally as impressive!
