ARTICLE

What made you decide to become a tattoo artist?
Well....it is so difficult question to explain. I became to a tattoo artist as a natural progression. I liked to drawing since childhood. I came to be much more interested in tattooing when I traveled throughout Chitwan and Pokhara as an importer of natural resources in 1990. I decide to be a tattoo artist after much business traveling because I felt so tired from traveling around the world. I just wanted to stay in Iran for a while. Although now I am missing traveling so much. Life is funny...
How has your work developed over the years?
I can't really say anything because I am never satisfied. I just try to do my best for each individual.

What is your favorite style of tattoo?
Japanese legends, old story , dragons and Japanese Nou stage picture.
Tell me your most unusual / interesting tattoo story!
Well...one day I had two customers. One was a day time appointment another was a night time appointment. Both men had never met and didn't know each other but they request me the very same design that was angel and name of a son. One father wanted this particular angel because he was overjoyed with the birth of his son. The other father wanted an angel because he was deeply saddened by the death of his son in a car accident. Both fathers came to get tattoo with the same reason. They both loved their sons so much. But their motivations were completely different. I will never forget that day and what I felt. I still don't understand the reason why they came in the same day. Only God knows the answer...
As a tattoo artist what do you focus on technically or characteristically?
Well....I am not sure about characteristics. Technically I focus on the outline. I try to keep in mind how sharply or articulately I can show the lines, straight lines and curving lines.
I would say that your characteristic style is very distinctive and attractive.
I can say that tattoos in themselves are attractive. People say that my style is interesting because it is a mixture of Japanese and Western style.
You seem to successfully take several elements from different styles into your technique and not just focus on a particularly Japanese style.
I am satisfied with Japanese tattoo techniques, but I feel I need something more. Then I try to incorporate Western techniques to fill in the gaps. I don't mean to be the one who carries traditional tattoo to next
generation.