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elaborate on that as to what made you get into that particular feeling within your work ? I guess there ’ s maybe an artist thing to it or maybe it ’ s just very personal . I tend to be an emotional creator as it is because we have an imagination . Artists tend to be very passionate people . In my life , from my youth until now , I ’ ve moved around a lot and ‘ I ’ ve come and gone through some relationships that meant a lot to me . Stuff I ’ ve had to deal with like family members losing family members . I ’ ve always looked at art as being a cathartic outlet . I went through a period of minor drinking but I never tried to escape my life the ways other people escape . I used my art as a way of dealing with stuff . So for me there were reoccurring themes I noticed in my life . I live in almost an island of a town and I don ’ t have a lot of people I really associate with out here . When you ’ re in the studio a lot , with painting more so than tattooing , there ’ s a lot of isolation involved in that . You ’ re along a lot . I do a lot of art that deals with that . There ’ s a strange loneliness that goes with that creative process because to connect with people who aren ’ t on the same creative level , from my own experience , is very difficult sometimes . So I do a lot of stuff that has to do with isolation or these feelings of isolation in my art because it ’ s kind of who I am as an artist . I ’ m a really social person but when you get in the studio