Zombie boy
meet the canadian who’s turning
himself into one of the living dead
R ick is turning himself into a zombie. So far,
more than 24 hours of tattoos – costing over
$4,075 Canadian – have got him halfway there
and made him a minor celebrity on the internet,
where people can’t decide if he’s a body
modification visionary or mentally ill sicko.
What look are you trying to achieve with your
all-over tattoos?
They’re about the human body as a decomposing
corpse – the art of a rotting cadaver. They’re also
a tribute to horror movies, which I love. The
closest thing I could get to becoming a zombie
was to get tattooed like one. I see my tattoos as
celebrating the art of obscenity and the macabre.
How do you feel about your tattoos now?
They’ve been a part of me forever – before I even
got them done. They reveal how I feel on the
inside. I’m so used to how I look
that I don’t see them any more.
What would you have changed?
I’d have a lot more blood in general,
dripping and oozing everywhere. I’d have loved
to have blood pouring out of my eyes and a few
more bugs here and there. But it just didn’t
happen like that.
What do your friends think?
My friends think it’s cool. It’s punk rock.
How do people react to your tattoos?
There’s all sorts of weird shit here in Montreal, so
I blend in with the culture. Some people come up
and say, “Wow, nice tattoos”. Sometimes you get
a smart-ass kid who yells, “Hey, it’s Halloween!”
Every day I get some kind of skeleton joke. The
classic is, “Why didn’t the skeleton cross the
road? Because he didn’t have the guts.” g
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