godstooth is a multidisciplinary project. I began tattooing myself in 2014 to make sense of a body in transition, and in 2019 I began extending that work to others. Through freehand tattooing and abstraction, I’ve been able to share in the absolute terror and wonder of permanent change with my clients. I left ultimately feeling more humbled than ever by the implicit reminder that no body, no thing I could ever make will last.

In 2021, I quit tattooing full time to begin work as a shepherd. I birthed lambs in the mountains of Vermont, trying to know more viscerally the themes I had been trying to explore through my work. I draw more animals in states of decay now, working more directly with grief. I hope to make something located in the space between between mourning and wonder, between alive and not. We are all dying as we live. There are many ways to cope.

I live in Western Massachusetts now. Sometimes I am working as a shepherd, and sometimes I am tattooing. All throughout I am making music and hosting events under the name Holy Taker, and working on a series of printed media, writing, and visual art to be released as godstooth.

Ultimately, I can write as much as I want about what I make, but everything leads back to one truth; birth and death are the same, inextricable process. We are always, constantly, inevitably, experiencing both. It hurts in the best way possible, and I call it God.