Getting a tattoo in a language that you don't understand is rarely a good idea. Hell, even tattoos in people's native tongues are often hilariously misspelled or misinterpreted.

BEIJING -- "Pig." That was the word printed on her T-shirt in Chinese -- an enormous design taking up the entire front. "PIG." "Do you know what your shirt says?" my dad called out to the stranger ...

These artists channel elements of Chinese painting, calligraphy and Buddhism through their needles in a new form of ‘poetic expression’.