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My friend Jae, a home tattoo artist that’s been tattooing his friends and family — someone who many would call a “scratcher” — was willing to have a chat about the opposite end of the tattoo spectrum from the top-end artists I’ve been featuring lately (tomorrow we’ll be flipping back in that direction with a great feature on Johnny Thief). That interview’s just been posted — click the picture to read it now, and come back here of course to comment.
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If I’m understanding the message correctly (there’s a bit of a language barrier), the broken circle represents the human being, and the maze within the human represents the meaning of life… the maze however, as life, is a defective maze. This was done by Hata at InkRatTattoo in Tokyo, Japan.
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According to Faye, half of this gallery exhibit, “this is what happens if you are not sleepy.” Apparently Arnhem in the Netherlands has more interesting things to do at night than my neighborhood. I live next to a printshop that specializes in church donation envelopes… not very exciting at all. More pictures of their bloodshow after the break.
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This peony cutting, about nine months old in the picture on the right, was done by John Kid at The Piercing Lounge / Blue Lotus Tattoos in Madison, Wisconsin.
