What’s it like designing for clothing versus freehanding your art on a body, as far as placement and how it lays on someone? Is it kind of a similar process?

I think of it as honestly completely identical. Obviously, there are a lot of restraints for clothing, like you can’t really go over certain areas, like a seam. But I see it exactly the same. Like when I design for clothes, I think about how I want to wear my image on the body. And that’s essentially the same process as tattooing.

And for people that have been fans of The Hundreds for a long time, this isn’t actually your first project with us. You did a capsule for Jennifer back in the day.

Yeah, a while ago, that was really fun.

It was so cool. And I think there are so many fans of The Hundreds now, with our NFT project especially, that may not know about that brand, Jennifer. And I hope that this collection makes them go back and maybe find some of those pieces on the secondary market. But what was that like working on back then? And how did your relationship with Bobby start?

I think Bobby reached out to me back then. I think I might have tattooed somebody who was working for him, I can’t remember the connection. But essentially, he reached out to me and wanted to collaborate. And then we did the Jennifer USA collaboration, which was wild. I love that print. It’s so loud and out there. And then he reached out again recently to do this most recent collaboration. And I mean, I knew I wanted to do something similar but different. Obviously, my forte is floral. So I knew I wanted to make a floral pattern, but I didn’t want to do something simple like a rose or tulip. So I kind of decided on the orchid. And orchids are crazy. I think there are like 25,000 different species of orchids. There are so many different varieties and shapes and textures you can work with. And also another thing about the orchid that I found super fascinating was, flowers typically have radial symmetry, so like a sunflower or a daisy. But orchids are bilateral. So if you literally cut it in half, and you reflect it, it’s an exact copy. So it’s very similar to a human face, which I think is why we are super attracted to orchids in the first place. But at the end of the day, they’re just super weird, they’re quirky, they’re a little odd. They’re Extra-Terrestrial and sometimes they look like little fairies. So I was just captivated by that imagery. And I knew immediately that’s what I wanted to do for the new collab.

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