Liam Starr

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent custom design is the throne from Akira (1988) sitting empty. It is a stone throne, full of cracks and meant to house the most powerful person in the universe. It not only displays my love of that movie but the fact that the power of the entire universe flows through us all psychically.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

It would say, "The divine feminine is a power most delicate. It can be beautiful, tragic, even destructive." I have a shibari mermaid getting cut up for sushi. I have Ito Junji's horror icon Tomie, a succubus attracting men and then tearing them from this plane. I have Jessica Lange (hello!!) smoking a cigarette. I have four women bound together with braids on my stomach. All represent the powerful magic behind identity and self-expression. Who are we if not individual pieces of art?

What would you do with the $25,000?

$25,000 would change my life. I would be able to finish my album, a concept album about a female cyborg called cyborg006 created to destroy Earth. Once she does so, her emotions flood to her and, alone in the universe, she has nothing to do but sing and contemplate her existence and her actions. It's all set to dance/pop/electronic music. It's pretty iconic! I wrote and creative directed the album myself. It's very expensive to produce and working as a bartender means savings are slow-going.