“Not that I encourage it for kids, but for me, I knew what I wanted, I saw the path,” Hart explained. And before he’d even begun his junior year at Auburn Riverside High School, he dropped out. Hart’s parents backed his play, on the condition that he move out of the house and start supporting himself, which he did. Do you want to learn? Is this something that interests you?’”
“And one day, when I was maybe 15, he says, ‘You’re always here, you’re always in love with what’s going on. “One of the guys that my dad grew up with had a son that was learning from his uncle, and we were always in that shop, and the son had been learning about tattooing for 10 years,” said Hart. In those shops, the boy found tubes a little kid could scrub and then clean in an autoclave to earn candy money. Hart said he figured out exactly what he wanted to do with his life when he was just a little kid, going in and out of the various tattoo shops his motorcycle-life-loving father frequented, the future arist forming valuable connections with tattooers. Unlike Dali, however, who was famous for painting in a bath tub, Hart works his magic sitting down or standing up, on an actual floor, tools of the trade in hand, eyes on the customers as they ease themselves into a perfectly ordinary black chair that shows no sign of Dali-esque melting. Looking down on Hart is a print of artist Bob Ross, given to him by a client, which shares wall space with prints of surrealist artist Salvador Dali’s work, including one image a visitor can only surmise must be Dali’s weird, wonderful idea of, er, a cosmic egg?
“He did this arm a year and a half ago, and now he’s finishing it all. “He does amazing work,” said Johnston, holding out her right arm, sporting Disney characters. Word about people like that, whose heart is in everything they do, gets around, including into the ears of Madalyn Johnston, who had just hopped a plane from California to have Hart finish her tattoo.
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