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Tuesday  Jun 27, 2006

Every BODY Has a Story: Punk Rock Jesus

I’m originally from London, England and I came to the US around ’82. I was living in the iconic punk rock crash house in London when I met this girl. She was from the US, and came to visit me about four times in London. The last time she came, she told me that she didn’t have enough money to keep coming back. I told her I didn’t have the money to go, but she ended up getting me a ticket to leave the next day. The plan was to stay two weeks, and I’m still here.

She and I were married for around five years, and after that, I was in a punk band in NYC called Nausea. During that time I met this skinhead girl, and fell in love. Her name was Andrea Elston, and she was from London as well.

She was in art school at the time, and was a talented artist. I had been getting all my tattoo work done at Elio and Shoties tattoo studios, but I was tired of paying for all my work. So… I got Andrea a tattoo gun for her birthday. I have five smaller pieces that she did on my legs and belly, but this is actually one of the first tattoos she ever did.

Since then, she went on to win the Giger award for her biomechanical tattoo work. She apprenticed at the places I went to before her, and went on to Mcdougals.

As for the image, I’ve always been interested in how people respond to Christian iconography. Especially in the punk and activist community, it becomes a sort of controversial tattoo. When I’ve worked with church groups and things though, it’s all turned around and people think that they know something about me by these tattoos.

The image of Jesus is one that I wanted to be as realistic as possible. I found a picture called “Nuclear Crucifixion” that I liked. For me, Jesus was a real person, an activist really. From there, I let Andrea do all the drawing."

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