ELEMENTS I.III: Water Signs, The Deepest Dive Yet

If you’ve been following the Elements I series, you already know that each element is more than a collection, it’s a reflection of personality, place, and purpose. Fire burned bright. Earth grounded me. Air lifted ideas into motion.

But Water…Water is different.

It’s personal. It’s emotional. And for me, as a Cancer, it’s the one I’ve been subconsciously avoiding.

Why Water Was the Hardest

Every time I sat down to start the Water sign pieces, I found myself gravitating toward the others, sketching airier silhouettes, reworking earth-toned patterns, or perfecting fiery textures. I told myself I was “getting to it.” But if I’m honest, I was just nervous.

This one feels like home. And when something feels that close to who you are, the pressure to get it right can be paralyzing.

Water signs, Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, carry depth. We’re ruled by emotion, intuition, and creativity, but also by nostalgia, fear, and transformation. We flow, we heal, and sometimes, we drown in our own thoughts before learning how to rise again.

So this collection needed to honor that duality, the softness and the strength, through design that’s bold, symbolic, and unapologetically human.

The Sailor Jerry Influence

If you’ve ever seen my work, you know I love a story stitched into a seam. For Water, I dove into American Traditional style tattoos, specifically influenced by, Sailor Jerry’s.

There’s something poetic about that: tattoos as permanent art, water as impermanent movement. Both are ways of capturing emotion, one frozen in ink, the other constantly shifting.

This aesthetic became the backbone of the Water collection. Strong lines. Bold shading. A palette that mixes ocean blue, coral red, and golden sand. Every piece carries that rebellious, vintage edge, but with a sense of modern reclamation.

This isn’t about nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. It’s about taking the grit of old-school tattoo art and using it to tell new stories.

♋ CANCER: The Ink Beneath the Surface

The Cancer piece might be my most personal design ever.

It’s a one-piece bodysuit that gives the illusion of being fully tatted in Sailor Jerry and American Traditional motifs , anchors, roses, waves, hearts, and hidden nods to growth, healing, and emotional armor.

The bodysuit is form-fitting but powerful, designed not just for swimming, but for reclaiming your skin. For me, it’s about facing the thing I was afraid to start, literally wearing the art, embodying the emotion, instead of running from it.

Cancers are protective and deeply sentimental, but we’re also tougher than we look. This piece says: You can be soft and strong at the same time.

♓ PISCES: The Dreamer’s Robe

Pisces was pure poetry from the beginning.

This design is a flowing robe, the kind that looks ethereal when it moves, like moonlight reflecting on the surface of still water. The fabric features a vintage-inspired scale pattern, soft and shimmering, with subtle fish motifs on the back.

It’s meant for dreamers. The artists, the romantics, the ones who float through life half in this world and half in another. It’s a reminder that being “in your own world” isn’t a flaw, it’s where magic is born.

Layer it over swimwear, wear it poolside, or drape it like armor when you need to feel safe in your sensitivity.

Pisces energy is escapist, intuitive, and imaginative, and this robe embodies that.

♏ SCORPIO: The Medusa Reclamation

Then there’s Scorpio, she’s one of my favorites.

For this piece, I collaborated with my friend Ken, an insanely talented artist who created a Sailor Jerry–style Medusa pin-up girl tattoo I originally wanted for myself.

I chickened out on the tattoo, but I couldn’t let the art go. It was too powerful.

So I decided to make it wearable.

The Scorpio board shorts and sarong set feature Ken’s Medusa artwork, a stunning fusion of femininity and fury, printed across the fabric.

Medusa isn’t just a monster. She’s a symbol of protection, transformation, and survival. Her story has been twisted through history, but her gaze still stands for power reclaimed.

Scorpios are kn own embody that same energy, deep, magnetic, often misunderstood, but always evolving. These pieces are for the ones who have been told they’re “too much,” who’ve learned that intensity is not a flaw, it’s a force.

The Collection as a Whole

Together, these three signs form the tides of emotion that shape everything else. They remind us that strength doesn’t always look fiery or loud, sometimes, it’s in the stillness, the patience, the willingness to feel deeply and keep creating anyway.

Every Water sign piece from Elements I.III carries a piece of that truth. It’s tattooed in color, sewn in symbolism, and finished with a whisper of rebellion, because the ocean doesn’t ask for permission to move.

Designing this collection has felt like a personal journey, one that’s still teaching me how to trust my instincts, even when the current feels too strong.

Maybe that’s the point. Water finds its way, around, over, or through. This time, so did I.

Coming soon: Elements I.III: The Water Signs Collection. Each piece tells a story, and this one starts with a ripple.