Jondix Inks the Divine With Geometric Swagger

The first time I stumbled across Jondix’s work, I half-wondered if my retinas were being initiated into a secret society. It wasn’t just a tattoo, it was a portal. Geometry, mysticism, alchemy, sacred diagrams that feel less drawn than divined. His lines didn’t just meet; they converged with intent, like they’d trained in tantric philosophy and passed with high distinction. This wasn’t decoration. This was divine cartography.

Born in Barcelona and raised by rock posters and guitar feedback, Jondix began as a graphic designer before tattooing found him. Or maybe lured him with the smell of burning sage and Indian ink. You can feel the design roots in his work: the precision, the symmetry, the near-mathematical confidence. But it’s the esoteric obsession that lifts it out of the visible spectrum. From Tibetan iconography to Sanskrit scrolls to 70s psychedelia, his influences are less moodboard and more metaphysical playlist.

He tattoos like a lucid dreamer charting star maps from memory. Every piece buzzes with intent: part riddle, part relic, part whispered myth etched where memory meets muscle. Clients don’t queue for flash or fashion. They come for alignment, initiation, maybe even a talisman that doubles as a solar compass. And if the session runs long? That’s not a delay, it’s part of the ritual.

These days, Jondix works out of his shop Seven Doors Tattoo in London, when he’s not sketching visions in a forest, painting cosmic machinery, or decoding the occult with musicians and mystics alike. He’s published books, spoken at symposiums, and designed more album covers than your record shelf has spines. But for all the esoteric geometry and planetary gravitas, there’s mischief woven in too. Just ask him about the time he tattooed a cow’s head on a skull while blasting Slayer. Sacred doesn’t mean humourless.

I. THE PUPPETEER & THE STRUCTURALIST

You’ve been described as a “channel of otherworldly patterns” in tattooing, almost like a mystic antenna. Do you ever finish a piece and feel like some ancient geometry spirit worked through you, or is it really just you behind the curtain?

It’s always me behind a mask, carrying a puppet in my hand, that’s the one making the designs. This isn’t a joke, it’s really how I feel. I’m a puppeteer creating a world, like when I was a kid playing alone. I’m lucky some people even like what I do.

You studied architecture but ditched the blueprints in your final year to pursue art. And it shows in your tattoos’ precise sacred geometry. Do you think of your tattoo designs as little cosmic temples on skin?

I used to do more geometrically complex stuff because of the confidence I built at university. But with time, I realized tattooing has its own language, totally different from other crafts. You just need a few thousand hours of practice. Architecture teaches style, structure, and of course, good taste from seeing beautiful buildings every day.

II. THE RITUALIST & SYMBOL-HACKER

You’ve said that “tattoo art is a ritual activity,” especially when the imagery draws on ancient cultures and true passion. What kind of ritual or mindset do you bring into a tattoo session to make it feel sacred?

You don’t have to make anything in life feel sacred. It is or it isn’t. And tattoos rarely are. But I prefer to work in a more mystical atmosphere, for sure. Elements that help draw us a bit outside the matrix.

From multi-armed Kali goddesses and meditative Buddhas to cobras and skull kings, your tattoos read like spiritual fever dreams. What draws you to these mythic symbols?

They’re ancient symbols that open a glitch out of our mundane lives. That’s why I use them. The power Jung talked about is totally true.

III. THE COSMIC SPLIT & PRINTED SPELLBOOKS

In painting exhibitions from The Crypt in London to your show Calvarium, you unleash surreal madness. How does that relate to your more structured tattoos?

Same coin. But tattoo is sometimes just decorative. Painting is never decorative. Painting is pure freedom. Tattoo is never pure freedom. What I just said holds a lot of truth.

You’ve published tattoo tomes, art books, even one on jeweler Axel Stocks. Is publishing an art form or archive?

Making books validates your efforts, sometimes even in the eyes of the ignorant, like your family. You become someone important. And when you have kids, they can read your books when you die. Better than scrolling through their dead dad’s Instagram. At least it’s more romantic.

IV. THE SONIC SEANCE & THE CANVAS EXPANDER

Your doom metal project Aeonsgate released a single 60-minute track about life after death. Why?

Playing guitar since I was a kid just feels right. Distorted guitars are pleasing. Playing metal - heavy, doom, or instrumental - is another form of expression I need for sanity. A catharsis I can’t explain. That long song was trance-inducing. A soundtrack for a gathering.

You’ve tattooed, painted, designed album covers, guitar pedals, helmets, and motorcycle tanks. Any surface off-limits?

I only take on projects I love so I can dive into the story and contribute something. That Black Sabbath wah-wah pedal was cool. I tried to make it belong in their universe. Same with Tool. Some people said it looked more like Tool than Tool.

V. THE BELIEF-SHIFTER & DALINIAN DOWNLOAD

You’ve said “life is an illusion… death is the ultimate reality.” Where does that come from and how does it shape your art?

Like every human, I’ve changed beliefs as I aged. Nothing convinces you 100%. Satanism at 20, Buddhism at 30, paganism after. But recently, I went from agnostic to believing in God. That’s how I think now. That’s my anchor.

Dalí made a big impact on you as a kid. Do you channel that surrealism in your own work?

Oh yeah, I can’t escape those early influences. Environment is stronger than will. I’ve done a lot of Dalinian pieces. One recently depicted his face with a crown of thorns for a book called Jesus from Blackdaggerbooks.

VI. THE MULTIVERSE MANAGER & NEXT SPELL

You run Seven Doors Tattoo, paint, publish, and shred in a doom band. How do you balance it all?

It’s easy: I don’t waste time. I follow my priorities. No parties, no getting drunk, no laziness, no big holidays. Just using 14 hours a day wisely.

What’s next in the Jondix universe?

I’d love to do more, but I’m also happy with simpler things. Hopefully someone reading this hires me for a cool project.