You are an incredible artist. How did your professional tattoo
art journey lead you in this direction?
Thank you, I just follow my heart. It’s hard to tell when I chose this
career, I just keep going and chasing my ideal.
Describ e how your role models and any other sources of
inspiration have affected your tattoo style.
Creative thinking for me leads to expression based on my understanding of the knowledge. Skill is more like habit, the more you
know, the more comprehensive understanding you will have to
help with your creation. Books are the main source of my inspiration. Books provide the most basic features of visual thinking mental activity that creates vivid and specific images. It’s not like in
science where you gradually set aside specific images, and finish
with the concept of making general conclusions. Books always
leave you with these vivid images, and you use your life experience to understand and interpret the results that the vivid images
show you.
When you are creating art, any art, you must rely on visual thinking
to express unique visions or ideas. Not just from your imagination,
you need to have a concrete vision in your mind, and then use
your imagination to deepen the understanding of and to develop
the images. It is a relationship between the two, between abstract
thought and concrete images. This way you create a unique vision.
If I just copied out of a book right onto the person, then I would not
be creating anything new.
Personality must have a very real presence, it plays a vital role
in the work, otherwise a style of art does not really exist. Every
individual has many different influences, both internal and external
factors, this results in the creation of your own practice, showing
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