Rise

  Trash Polka style "I Will Rise" approximately 5"x7" Designed by Jimbo Ermilio  "I originally got into tattooing back in 2005-06.I got my first Job at McDonalds and saved up to by my first tattoo machine. I was fortunate to land an apprenticeship in 2006 and about 2 years later i was out in the world tattooing. Tattooing was an outlet for me... i needed something to be passionate about... needed something to obsess over that wasn’t completely destructive at that moment in life.  Trash polka was always something that i gravitated towards since i first saw it in a magazine around 2010. It was super new and inspiring at the time. Still is inspiring. I obsessed over everything that was behind trash polka. Buenavista tattoo club in Germany is where it first came from... I've never wanted to copy the style but I definitely wanted to incorporate it into my work somehow. I've spent the last 4 years of my career utilizing everything I’ve learned over the years, trying to create a trash polka