INTERVIEW
WRITTEN BY
AMANDA DAWN
Jason Hager
Empire Ink, OHIO
So what are some things about you?
I've spent a lot of time in the music industry (Chimaira co-founder, former guitarist) and music and tattooing seem to go hand and hand. I’m a father to one pretty cool 12 year old.
When did you decide to enter the industry and why?
I’ve had a love to tattoos at a very young age. My friends and I were a bunch of little punk rock, metal skateboarders hand poking tattoos into each other. I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil, has had a love for tattooing so it was the logical direction for me to take. I can't possibly see myself doing anything else. Tattooing is something I've wanted to do for quite some time, a friend of mine (Rich Griggs) told me that he had faith in my art and would teach me. Over the past 3 years I've been trying to learn and absorb knowledge from as many great artists as I can.