247 Ink Magazine (Februaryr/March) 2019 Issue #25 | Page 72

The main cul- tures that af- fects my style are European, and not be- cause I worked there, it’s be- cause I was traveling a lot over there when I was a child and now I still am in love with the art nouveau and art deco that you can see all around Europe in Paris or Prague. An- other style of art that affects me is the Vanitas art. It’s a sym- bolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the cer- tainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death. So traveling around Europe and being at the greatest museums over there, blow my mind and drove me to the style of tattooing that I do today. My style of tattooing has all of that that has an influence with the neo-traditional style of tattoo. Usually I like drawing flash of demons, skulls, witches and other evil images and use a lot of col- 68