The secret life of a Tattoo Artist

Everyone has a secret life. It is pear wood for Téglás István. In plain clothes he manages a tattoo shop, but as soon he arrives home he changes his clothes, turns on the light on his "desk" and starts observing the light effects on the swells and grains of the wood. To get tuned for art work he listens to a record of Hermeto Pascoal and waits for the perfect moment, the perfect idea and the inspiration to see what to remove and from where to remove it. He only tolerates a few people this time. Perhaps I am the only one with whom he shares his views and ideas regarding the composition. He composes intuatively with no preconceptions on his mind. He never starts a sculpture with an idea that that I will sculpture a lion or a dancer from that piece of wood. That piece of wood develops during work on the basis of his intuitions and inspirations, so it might happen that a new direction appears during the creation of a semifinished statue.