I’ve always been drawn to the contrast between light vs. darkness. The kind that makes you feel something. Where darkness doesn’t take away from the light, it defines it. There's a reason the painters I keep returning to weren't afraid of shadow.

Caravaggio. Gentileschi. Georges De La Tour. These artists put shadow to work. They used it to create tension, depth, and raw honesty. Without that, it’s just decoration.

I was lucky enough to spend so much time getting lost in the streets of Paris, finding hidden bookshops, collecting art books, standing in front of paintings at the Louvre for hours just experiencing them. It's the most honest visual language I've personally found for the weight of human experience. That’s the direction I am committed to now. Creating work that has that same weight. Something that makes you stop and actually feel something.

When you leave the tattoo chair, I want you to feel seen. Not just tattooed. I want you to feel like something real about you has been brought to the surface. Your story, your philosophy, your memory — made visible in a way you couldn't have articulated yourself. That's the only standard I hold this work to. Everything else is secondary.

The clients I do my best work with come in with trust. Not blind trust — earned trust. They bring me their idea, their story, and then give me the space to interpret it. They're not here for something they saw on Pinterest. They're here because they want something that couldn't exist without this specific collaboration. If you can give me that freedom, I can give you something that will still be extraordinary in forty years.

My work has always been built on a standard. What's changed is the direction. After seventeen years I know exactly what I'm here to make — and it isn't what's trending. Nothing designed to fit a moment that will pass. I make work that is timeless — black and grey pieces that carry the same weight in forty years that they do the day they're finished. Pieces that could be appreciated in any generation, in any room, next to any painting.

If you want something safe and familiar, I won't be the right artist for you. If you want something that will outlast everything else you own — I am. There's nothing I'll protect more fiercely than the integrity of what we create together.