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Back Piece — Bali

Your back. Fully planned.

Full back pieces and large-scale compositions in black-and-grey realism. Planned as a unified design, executed session by session. Samadhi Uluwatu, Bali.

A back piece isn’t ten tattoos in one place.

People underestimate what a back piece actually is. It’s not a collection of designs crammed onto a canvas — it’s a single unified composition that respects how the body moves, where light falls, and how the eye tracks across a large space. Getting that right requires planning before the first session, not decisions made on the fly. The difference between a back piece that works and one that doesn’t is almost entirely in the prep.

Artem — Samadhi’s founder — treats large-scale work the way a painter treats a large canvas: theme first, compositional flow second, detail third. Before any needle touches skin you’ll have a complete plan — panels, negative space, session sequence. Most back pieces take three to five full sessions across multiple visits to Bali. Some clients plan their holiday trips around them.

Back piece — planning & process

Sessions, timeline, cost, and how the planning process works at Samadhi.

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Back piece — planning & process

Sessions, timeline, cost, and how the planning process works at Samadhi.

A full back piece typically requires 7–12 sessions, spread across separate visits. The exact number depends on the level of detail, the complexity of the composition, and how your skin responds between sessions. We give you a specific estimate after the consultation and design phase.
We start with a full consultation — your references, your theme ideas, any existing tattoos nearby that need to be integrated. Artem draws the full composition before the first session. You’ll see the stencil on your back before anything is permanent. Adjustments happen at that stage, not halfway through session three. The planning session is free and takes 1–2 hours.
Six to eight hours per session is typical. We build in breaks as needed. Artem doesn’t rush the end of a session to make a time slot: if an area needs more work, it gets more work. Quality on a back piece is cumulative — the early sessions set the foundation that later sessions build on. Rushing any of it shows.
Full back projects are quoted per project after the consultation and design phase. Sessions start from 1,500,000 IDR. The total cost of a complete back piece depends on the number of sessions and complexity — significantly less than comparable realism work in Australia, Europe or the US, which is why clients travel specifically for this kind of project.
Artem, the studio founder, handles all large-scale realism projects including back pieces. He has been tattooing for over twelve years with a focus on black-and-grey photorealism and large-format compositions. He also created the Real Tattoo Memories project — documenting tattoos at extreme locations around the world. Large-scale work is his speciality; he takes on a limited number of major projects each month to maintain quality.

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