You have been tattooing about
8 years, at what age did you
first start thinking you wanted
to be a tattoo artist and how
early on did you realize the importance of tattoos to people?
My introduction into tattooing
came at the loss of a dear friend
when I was about 15 years old.
I got the idea to get a tattoo in
her memory as a way to try and
cope with it. I went to a local tattooer and fell in love the second I
walked in the door. I had always
been attracted to art but never
was exposed to tattooing as a
form of it. I got the tattoo and it
was at that time I realized one of
the many powers tattooing has.
It gave me a way to always keep
her with me! Later that grew into
self expression, and just a love for
having artwork on my body. My
goal as a tattooer is to recreate
that euphoria for others and hope
that regardless the reason behind
them being tattooed, it ends with
them being happy.
Would you consider yourself
primarily a black and grey artist? When I look through your
work there are plenty of black
and grey tattoos and all of a
sudden a pretty slammin color
one pops up? Why aren’t you
doing more color?
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