Lose your head, feel for the threads, and through the wound remember the truth of you.

About Arville

At Cosmos Body Altar, Arville offers custom, intuitive tattoos for people navigating personal transformation. She collaborates with clients to design pieces that flow with the body and reflect meaningful aspects of their journey, whether through inner child remembering, symbolic imagery, or reflecting abstract emotional thresholds.

Arville often incorporates sigils and personalized symbols as anchors for truth and change. While not every session is ritual-based, each is approached with care and intention. She is also developing new offerings to intentionally bring her training as a death doula into her work. 

Arville’s new book Cosmos Lost Her Head is a poetic oracle that complements this practice, guiding readers through their own cycles of death and rebirth.

Artist’s Statement

I am a multidisciplinary creator working across storytelling, sculpture, painting, illustration, and tattooing. I’ve never been someone who could stick to one medium, style, group, or location. Just as I seek to bridge the gaps between unexplored spaces, my artistic endeavors feed into one another in ways I often can’t foresee. In this exploration, I am inexplicably drawn to the subtle threads that weave them together.

I’m deeply influenced by the alchemical process of transformation and the way we, as humans, can transmute our deepest emotions and rewrite the narratives of our lives. Tattooing is a literal manifestation of this process of death and rebirth. Clients come to me with the intent of being permanently marked by my art: art created through co-collaboration, depicting their stories of pain, joy, loss, and discovery. To accurately tell these stories, I must surrender to intuition and artistic flow; any attempt of the mind halts progress.

Whether on canvas, clay, or skin, my process is rooted in ritual and intention, requiring my full presence of spirit and an unjudging mind. I love the juxtaposition between the perceived permanence of tattoos and physical art. While often seen as fixed, a tattoo will eventually return to the warm embrace of the earth, while physical art may last for generations.

I find myself fascinated and humored by paradox and find myself constantly dancing in the organized chaos that comes with holding space for contradictory experiences and emotions.

Arville Persons with Mom, Tracy Persons.
Arville Persons with Dad, Theautis Persons.

^Photos of sleeves on my parents to celebrate their 50th birthdays!

Arville Persons, creator of Cosmos Lost Her Head
Cosmos Lost Her Head vision board day.
Arville Persons

What else am I up to?

Community Hub Vision Board

Events & Retreats

Digital Diary

Celebrating People (coming soon)