I love your art! Your
work is just so power-
ful. What lead you to
the boldness and grit
and strength of it?
Thank-you. I experi-
mented with a lot of dif-
ferent styles of tattoo-
ing early on bouncing
around from one thing
to the next, the illustra-
tive blackwork stuff is
the only thing that really
stuck. I think it was al-
ways intrinsic for me to
head in this direction as
it’s pretty similar to the
style of thing I’d doodle
on my exercise books
in school, soldiers with
Minotaur skulls holding
bouquets of wilting lil-
ies for damsels in dis-
tress crying centipedes
into bowls of spaghetti
bolognese. All the hal-
lucinogenic garbage
my brain could muster
up. Another funny thing
that just came to me,
I’m sure many people
used to do this, I relent-
lessly drew all over my
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