It’s hard to quantify how to express the love I have for creating and learning everything that is art. I do know that it’s my safe place.
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I feel like anything I create from nothing is art and I generally like to create things for others to enjoy. I like to mess around with all types of mediums like acrylics or oils on canvas, prop making, special effects makeup, body painting, bleach on clothing, sculpting, and epoxy resin.
Where do you find inspiration?Anything that moves me or provokes thoughts or emotions are the root of my inspirations. Could be a heartfelt movie or show, quote from Socrates or another great mind of insight, a moment in time past or future that I wish wouldn’t fade in time or a moment I wish I could expel from my mind but fiercely clings. Life in general is my inspiration.
What would you do with $25,000?I know the first thing I’d do is help out my brother Josiah and the tattoo shop I work and manage, Irish rose tattoo, who stubbornly wont admit or agree with me on how he changed the course of my life for the better. Before we opened our towns first legal tattoo shop, I was couch hopping at friends or whoever would have me for years. I had a record and been to jail with no car or anything of value to really call my own. Because he brought me into Irish rose, I have my own apartment and car.
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