![]() But now when tattooing is more bigger than ever with more tattoo artists than you can count, it’s not the same as it used to be. Higgs, interdimensional song-seamstress and corpse-dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the harbor city of Baltimore, USA in the early-mid. Say God by Daniel Higgs Lyrics: Say god, Amen / Without regard for its meaning, say god / Prior to interpretation say god / Remember to say god and say god. We are part of something bigger they might have thought. It was exiting to see the same images done with slight moderations. The sailors and travellers were the calling cards. Because it used to be – back in the day – unusual to see work from other artists. Now people are doing it because they think it is cool, but they used to do it because it meant something. Stop looking at other tattooers work for influence. Daniel didn’t sit in front of his computer looking at Myspace while hitting refresh to Chad Koeplinger’s page. Why is that? Well, I think if you are a tattoo artist and want to see tattoos by The Higgs, you really shouldn’t. ![]() There is that spark in the work he put out. That is the Seed motherfucker’s, The sacred seed. He re-introduced the overlooked path of using black like it was the truth and made his designs simpler, more dynamic and bolder than was accustomed that time (a secret hint: take a look at the Owen Jensen flash in the book Pierced Hearts and True Love if you want images to those words), but most importantly he was one of the few who brought outside influences to tattooing. ![]() He took what was before, embraced it and then gave it another birth. In fact he was one of the few people who re-wrote the book. In the beginning of 2008, my best friend Doog, my partner Lindsay, and I, were making plans to move from the midwest to. And that is what Daniel also recognized – even if he didn’t completely know what IT really was – and started to expand the vocabulary of tattoo artists. In every tattoo shop that looks like one. It is in all the flash sheets that you see. And you know the path that I am talking about. It was trough Tux that Daniel was introduced to that great lineage of tattooers, most notably perhaps Thom Devita from who Tux also got the aura and path from.
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