makes your more engaged in the whole
process. It’s just way more energy to it
than when you’re sitting there making a
tattoo and going “Well it’ll be a cool tattoo but there’s no feedback on it. I feel
like you grow when there’s feedback.
It’s like you have your friends and
peers there to guide you along.
It’s like conventions are kind of safe
even though they’re intimidating. I know
some people get pretty intimidated at
them. It’s like everybody’s there for
the same thing. They’re all just trying
to make cool tattoos and show their
best work in the most uncomfortable
situation possible. You’re sitting there
in these fold-up chairs but you’re like
whatever I do today I hope it’s awesome. It’s kind of neat because you
know there’s going to be some neat
stuff walking around. I just like conventions; I like the energy of them
I do too. You see a lot of good friends there all the time.
They’re like family reunions almost.
Do you have any future projects you’re working on any big that you’re
planning?
Right now I’m in kind of a strange place. I moved out to the middle of nowhere. I was in a really weird place artistically. After moving back to Ohio
from California I got myself into a weird artistic place where I didn’t know
what I was creating anymore. I kind of got a little sidetracked. I was making
art but there was no direction to it. So I took a year when I opened up the
shop where I’m at when I kind of disappeared from what was happening in
the world and tried to not get sucked into what was cool and what was hip
and whatever. I more so focused on what I wanted to create. So I’ve spent
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