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The Vanishing Tattoo’s Thomas Lockhart proudly displays his full-body ink” A hundred and forty nine bucks gets you a tattoo gun by mail order,” says Vancouver tattoo artist THOMAS LOCKHART. “A case of beer later, you and your friends are scarred for life.”

Lockhart despairs over the state of current tattooing. He admits, though, that he was youthful once, too, and traveled the world for women, beer, and an assortment of thrills that included not just a few tattoos. For Thomas Lockhart, skin ink would become his art… his obsession… his entire life.

Lockhart is now embark on another journey to pay his greetings to those masters — and to revert to the fading origins of tattoo art — roving even to Borneo’s notable Valley of the Headhunters in order to gain one last real tattoo.