Artist’s Description: The koi carp is hugely popular as a tattoo image, it symbolizes the strength of the koi swimming upstream to spawn. The Oni is a demon in japanese mythology with great strength as well. About the Artist

• Raised on a diet of Ray Harryhausen films, H. P. Lovecraft novels, comics, Walt Disney World rides and other Florida tourist traps, Pooch paints images that seem to exist in a bizarre afterlife. His art is a visual cocktail of these influenceswith a shot of lowbrow cultureshaken and stirred, then served up in a souvenir tiki skull on the Day of the Dead.

  Tattooing since 1994, Pooch’s work has been featured in numerous galleries, books and magazines throughout the world. www.poochisland.com www.alteredstate.net