TB: Tattoos and the Mirror of the Mind

TB’s tattoo was done by Roger “Fatty” C. Jordan, who passed in 2012. He was the owner of the Art Room Gallery in Woonsocket and a legendary tattoo artist in Rhode Island. TB, a local construction dude, part-time musician, and full-time person who “puts up with a lot of shit,” agreed to have his Fatty tattoo photographed in the hope of a restoration of a kind via Photoshop. Roger had promised him a retouch but that hadn’t happened. I was happy to do the shoot and work on the tattoo, and if it weren’t for his friend, Dave, who happened to be around, this would have been a very nice post that didn’t raise any questions or controversy.