Just before my 24th birthday I walked into a very prominent tattoo shop in St. Paul to get my birthday tattoo.  There I met the man that would teach me the art that has become my life.  He and I opened a shop in Stillwater, MN.  I was his apprentice for three years.  In that time I made needles, did line drawings, colored in flash, cleaned tubes, answered phones, talked to customers and basically learned the business.

        People ask me how I got into tattooing.  I tell them I basically fell into it.  I wasn't looking to be a tattooist... it found me!  Now it's all I do.