Matthew Florio

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent tattoo is the song title “forever and ever, amen” by randy travis. It’s the first country song I remember my Mom playing singing. I got it tattooed in my father’s handwriting as a remembrance for my Mom.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

It would sing doo wop songs while a slideshow of my life played. It would tell you how my dad got his name and who my grandma prayed too. Where my father grew up (384 broome st) and where the pizza place was (192 grand). It would shlw you my favorite movie is a bronx tale. Youd see a rose for my grandma and a cow because my Mom loves cows and thought they were healing. You would be told ablut the house I grew up in by it’s coordinates and that I loved baskteball. Youd find out I’m a

What would you do with the $25,000?

with 25,000 of tattoos I would do a portrait sleeve on my right arm. My Mom and Dad, Grandma, Aunt, basketball coach and my dog. I want to have that sleeve so much and I would cherish it every day of my life. It would be the world to me to have those portraits to remember the people I’ve lost and love.