“I don’t mind using myself up… I would like to die tired if I could, having given it everything I have.”
- Dan Wysuph

Contemporary American culture has increasingly come to view the permanent marking of one’s body as both a legitimate means of self-expression and an art form in its own right. Tattooed models grace the pages of fashion magazines while hipster pubs like Juxtapoz extol the virtues of cross-over talents like Chris Conn Askew. Soccer moms and executives have joined the ranks of what was once the purview of sailors, convicts, and Hell’s Angels. It’s a good time to be a tattoo artist and a golden age for gettin’ tacked.