Jose Solis

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My friend Bailey has been tattooing herself for years and she finally managed to land an apprenticeship with a tattoo shop, and I offered myself up as a candidate to help her grow as an artist, one of the options was a jellyfish from SpongeBob, and I of course had to get that tattoo. Spongebob was the one thing we had repeat on my house when I was growing up, we didn't have enough money for regular tv so we just had SpongeBob season 1-3 on DVD and we just burned through that dvd.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

Each peace tells a story. They hold love, pain, endurance, forgiveness, hate, wonder. But that just represents me as a whole. I'm just a human trying to exist. My favorite one is on my hand. It's about twins surviving during a calamity. The twin brother tells his twin sister "Do not go far from me". Through out the story he is left with a choice to let his sister die or serve the queen of death. He gave his life for his sister. And that sums up my relationship with my twin sister.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I'd pay off my mom's car. She is disabled, can't work, her food stamps just got taken from her, and she is hurting mentally and physically. She feels like a burden because she lives with me and I take care of her but she my mom, I'm grateful she's still here. So paying off her car to relieve some stress from her would be amazing. If there is any money left I would put it to our mortgage