@samma.charles

📍Boston, MA, USA

Some sort of chemical imbalance, and all the clichés that make an artist have manifested in an absurd combination of an inferiority complex, where every tattoo is an attempt to prove myself good enough, and delusions of grandeur where I dictate what people should have on their bodies because I know best.Inspired by movies like Blade Runner, video games like Zelda and Cyberpunk, and Batman comics, my work focuses on high contrast, inorganic colour, showy complexity and feelings of loneliness. I want to keep talking about myself, but there’s a word limit…

Tattooing since 2013, I quickly became known for tattooing “nerd shit”, especially Pokémon. By 2015 my work was picking up steam, mainly thanks to my Game of Thrones portraits, which were shared by magazines and tattoo websites. The idea was to spend the first 10 years of my career learning as much about the styles and genres within tattooing, before carving my own path. You have to know the rules to break them.Ready for a humble brag? Whilst I have no awards myself (because I never enter anything) I operate award winning studios in the UK and US housing world class artists that I want to slap and brag about at the same time