on the way to where, and
they are like to Vegas. And
I’m like” oh shoot, babe.
Remember Fame and Millz? Well they are on their
way. Now we are cleaning
up the house but it’s all
good.
Do you find that you do
well in the conventions?
Like in New York? Does
the style go over in New
York?
After “the Rock” and after
the movie MOHANA It’s
going to be more and more
popular. Because now it’s
more of the people that
wouldn’t see it are now getting a dose of it and asking, dude what is that.
Hey, that’s what “The Rock” got. Or Sugar Shane Mosely. He gots it and
he’s not even Polynesian so it’s crossing barriers. Are you Indian or Mexican?
Mexican.
My man homie. I’m doing it on a lot of Mexicans now. And I’m adding a brick
pattern, a brick motif. Because of the pyramids. So I’m adding stuff like that
. And like snake scales and serpent scales. Because Polynesian tattooing
has meaning behind its name, and it’s up to the interpretation of how the
artists want to do it, I use the scales as a protection and I use the rock as
foundation over your roots. Because a lot of it is organic in look where this
little wavy thing is actually from the fern plant where it opens up into new beginnings. And I just met with buddy who did a tattoo convention in the Philippines where it doesn’t only meant that. It means when something comes to
an end, you always know your way back. It’s the journey. So you’re always
learning something. If you look at my work, and you look at another person’s
work, you’ll see that they might use 10 patterns or 10 motifs and I’ll only use
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