247 Ink Magazine (December/January) 2016 Issue#12 | Page 215

You’ve been a busy guy doing a crazy amounts of conventions? Did you always do this many or did that start after Ink Masters? I Would do a few a year, maybe 2 or three a year max, but after the show it would be best for me to do as many as possible so the relevance of what I did on the show doesn’t fall off. It was just prudent of me to do as many shows as possible plus it’s been a positive thing to do the conventions. I get to grow as an artist, work with other passionate artists, equally awesome tattoo artists so it was just the next step of the evolution to do as many as I can. So many artists don’t get that and don’t do them. I don’t know why they don’t do them but if anybody would ask me the benefit of doing conventions it’s to be around like minded artists who are passionate about what they do and pick up little tricks that they might have, and share your knowledge with them, be motivated and inspired by their work, and push each other and compete against each other in a positive way and everybody benefits from that. To not do that and not evolve and stay stagnant sitting in the same place and expect things to change, you’re just making a dead end. 213