Jun Cha’s Aruidma Studio is located not too far from my adolescent stomping grounds. The Los Angeles Clippers training facility and Electronic Arts’s headquaters are close enough to be neighbors. Equal parts fresh mindset and tradition decades old, his air conditioned office/studio space is welcome relief from the afternoon temperature outdoors mid-June in California. Once upstairs and treated to the visual splendor and much needed water, Jun emerges from a room surrounded by paintings and various equipment. Below is an excerpt of the conversation that ensued, as insights are shared between an uncommon journalist and one of the youngest tattoo artists with the biggest of track record of recent memory.

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