“Life in Dharamshala is good and nice but we really lack plat forms for artist, especially entrepreneurs. For us, starting up this studio was so difficult as the startup cost were pretty expensive. Thank god that one of our friend Migmar Tsering helped us. We didn’t have any support from the NGOs or the government.”
“Tattoo in our community is difficult to survive, so, mainly our customers are tourist. Tibetans have a believe that having tattoo will make your soul difficult to travel for next life. Thus, majority of the elder generations hate the concept of Tattoo. Yet, now a days, many youths have tattoo. We hardly have any tattoo artist among the youths as they don’t know how much money you can make by being a tattoo artist.”
“We don’t save a lot as many of our friends are unemployed, so we share what we have as after all we live as a family. Most of our families are in Tibet.”
“It has been three years since we have this studio. During these three years, we learned a lot about business as well as tattoo. This studio is also our home, sweet home. We spend most of our time here. We love this place. We are always trying to make it the most wonderful place to visit in this town."
“We don’t know about the future but one thing is for sure, where ever we go, we will miss this time! We are one of the best team, a cool team, a wonderful team and the tattoo team. We are going to break the walls and make Tattoo a viral among the community!”
Interview and Photo;Kunsang Tenzing
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