Issue 32 web-2.pdf

You are an incredible artist. How did your professional tattooart journey lead you in this direction?Thank you, I just follow my heart. It’s hard to tell when I chose thiscareer, I just keep going and chasing my ideal.Describe how your role models and any other sources ofinspiration have affected your tattoo style.Creative thinking for me leads to expression based on my understandingof the knowledge. Skill is more like habit, the more youknow, the more comprehensive understanding you will have tohelp 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 inscience where you gradually set aside specific images, and finishwith the concept of making general conclusions. Books alwaysleave you with these vivid images, and you use your life experienceto understand and interpret the results that the vivid imagesshow you.When you are creating art, any art, you must rely on visual thinkingto express unique visions or ideas. Not just from your imagination,you need to have a concrete vision in your mind, and then useyour imagination to deepen the understanding of and to developthe images. It is a relationship between the two, between abstractthought 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 notbe creating anything new.Personality must have a very real presence, it plays a vital rolein the work, otherwise a style of art does not really exist. Everyindividual has many different influences, both internal and externalfactors, this results in the creation of your own practice, showing72 InkSpiredMagazine.com