Your father is a painter and
was your inspiration at an
early age and you studied art
straight up through college.
That must have been a great
help when you started tattoo-
ing. How did you make the
transition from painter to tat-
tooer?
My first contact with art came
through my father. All my child-
hood i lived surrounded by art,
in all sorts of ways, it was part
of my daily life. All this made
me end up following my stud-
ies in the same area and, curi-
ously, my first contact with the
world of tattooing was at the
University. The transition from
painting to tattooing came by
chance. It emerged as a mere
curiosity to try out a different
canvas, to draw on a human
body.
And you still paint quite a lot?
Not as much as I want to be-
cause tattooing takes most of
my time ... working at the stu-
dio where I am resident, stu-
dios where I make guest spots,
conventions, preparing the
tattoo projects for all the ap-
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