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

About Arville

Arville Persons, the creative force behind Cosmos Lost Her Head, is a gifted multifaceted artist celebrated for transforming tattoos into deeply personal and spiritual experiences. With a meticulous attention to detail and a profound respect for the stories her clients bring, she approaches each design as a sacred collaboration, ensuring it reflects their inner selves and honors their journeys.

Arville’s work goes beyond art; it’s a transformative process infused with empathy, intention, and heart, offering clients a meaningful way to commemorate significant life events or express their true selves. Currently training as a death doula, she is further expanding her artistry to hold space for life’s transitions.

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)