What I value most about my work is connecting with people — hearing their stories and turning them into art that lasts a lifetime. Long before tattooing, I was just a kid who love to draw.
I was born in Brazil, and from as far back as I can remember, art has always been a part of my life. In school, I was that kid who was always sketching during class — the one everyone came to when they wanted something cool drawn on their notebooks. When I was around nine, I saw people painting graffiti on a wall for the first time, and it completely blew my mind. The colors, the movement, the freedom — it felt alive. I went home, grabbed some leftover spray cans, and started tagging walls around my neighborhood. That moment changed everything for me. Not long after, my brother gave me a graffiti magazine, and that opened up a whole new world. I spent hours studying styles and learning how people turned emotion into visual form. That’s when I knew art wasn’t just something I liked — it was who I was.
As time went on, I kept exploring different ways to create
Airbrush, digital design, web art, freelancing logos — anything that kept me learning. I even started teaching drawing at a social program for kids run by the police department. One of the sergeants there had a son who was a tattoo artist, and he invited me to visit his shop. I told him I wanted to start tattooing, but I was about to join the Air Force. Even after joining, that dream never left me. During my service, I bought a tattoo machine but never used it. I kept it for seven years, always thinking “someday.” One day I decided to sell it, and the moment I did, I felt it deep inside — I knew I had made a mistake. I realized I should’ve been tattooing all along.
A few years later, when I left the Air Force, I knew exactly what I needed to do. The first thing I did was go back to that same artist and tell him I was finally ready. That was the real beginning — the moment I stopped just dreaming about art and decided to live it fully.