Corvis

Corvis

they/them

The eye is Corvis’ first tattoo, done in Glasgow’s Southside just before their move to Brighton, in a session that felt more like a ceremony than a procedure. They got it alongside their friend Violet, whose idea it was for them to mark the moment together, not with matching designs but shared timing. Before the appointment they shared a tangerine, picked that morning, that happened to carry a sticker reading “atone”, which became an unplanned ritual of purification ahead of the needle.

Chosen family runs through the story. Corvis doesn’t have family nearby, and says friendship, especially one-to-one and deeply known, is the relationship they value most as a queer person. The tattoo marks that bond with Violet as much as it marks the milestone of leaving Glasgow.

The eye itself carries symbolic weight tied to years of writing and sketching: it represents the Anima Mundi, the idea that the universe is conscious and interconnected, and stands for perception in the broadest sense, the capacity to see and be seen, to stay curious, to remain open. Corvis links this to a wider concern about legacy: as a queer person without children, they see their creative output, and now this permanent mark, as a way of leaving something behind that speaks for them after they’re gone.

Their life reinforces the same threads: a stated devotion to self-understanding, spiritual and occult interest, deep friendship, and creativity as an act of joy and self-expression.