![]() ![]() So I guess it could be said that I sacrificed Daniel for tattooing. But it is more important that other artists create their own mystery. Because of course, the mystery of Higgs IS important. I think it is more important to try to guide/lift the spirits/make people think about themselfs than just give them a article about Daniel Higgs that is fact. I thought about it, and still do, pretty much constantly. Here is what I answered to one of the people who politely asked my about the issue All glory to him!Īnd I Know there are people who must think that when I even wrote this about Daniel, I take away from the mystery. He had the patience to answer my long ass and repetitive emails about Daniel and other shit. As I stated before I have to thank from the bottom of my heart one mister Robert Ryan. Thank for all the comments guys and for the interview link Brat Brains! Don Chuck, go right ahead!īut I really cant take that much credit for this blog post, or any others. With love, wonder, curiosity and more questions than answers, Because we matter.īE THE YOU and give tattooing back to tattooing, give it back to all of us. No one path is the same, that is what Daniel gave tattooing. And at best tattoo artists are those who bring to life those unique images that still resemble each other to a degree. It is here all the time but it changes constantly. Timeless but still rooted to the present day. It is at the same time mysterious but familiar. The feeling you get when you are looking at a old flash sheet. He knew that tattooing had something in it that you just cant explain. No, he just gave tattooing back to itself. He wasn't this so called “Jock tattooer”, one who just wants to beat the guy who came before by making a “better” design that is more “out there”. But he didn't do it in a way that separated him from the rest. ![]() I think it can be said that what Daniel did is bring the occult back to tattooing. And that in turn would make all the symbols that he used in his work meaningless. He knew that by just sharing his stuff openly to everyone there would be the danger of people making it into a competition. It seems that everyone just wants to be the king and I think Daniel saw that. Because people don't respect the myths or want to learn from them, they just want to beat them and don't even stop to THINK about what they are doing. If he hadn’t done that then tattooing would start dying because of the standard of mediocrity and non creative copying. Daniel himself, in cold blood, refuses anyone to share his tattoo work in the internet. 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. 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. 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. Daniel Higgs started tattooing somewhere around 1984 and apprenticed under a person by the name of Tux Farrar.
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