A Serious COllection

I met and started tattooing Ryan sometime around 2015, shortly before opening The East, and we’ve been working together ever since. The first project we completed was the space sleeve, and from there we moved on to his chest and armpits. Over the course of those sessions I came to understand that Ryan’s threshold for pain was almost superhuman — he would sit for hours in some of the most painful placements and barely make a sound, often dozing off between passes. A million thank-yous to Ryan for all the time he’s spent in my station.