Matt Gone • Artists

I have performed over 20 tattoo sessions on myself, including the genitals and surrounding area.

Facial checkers repair, redo, and completion. Body suit final touch ups.

Old style telephone on left shoulder June 2006

Rose Tattoo on right calf. July 2007

Eyelid and lipliner cosmetic tattooing. Cat tatoo on right knee. Mary Jane Haake is responsible for the final touch ups and completion of my facial and head tattoos.

June 2006

Ear tattooing.

October/November 2006

Tribal symbol hat on woman on lower left leg.

September 30, 2005

First attempt at facial tattooing. Responsible for first 5 facial tattoo sessions.

Facial tattoos completed by other artists.

Played tic-tac-toe with me on my right knee. No one won.

October 2, 2005

Ben was at the London Tattoo Expo. He tattooed my left knee at the expo. That is my Hurricane Katrina Souvenir.

October 9, 2005

Smiling Buddha Tattoo

Paul tattooed the words "Your Name" on my inner left thigh at the London Tattoo Expo.

October 9,2005

Traded tattoo of checkers from me on his foot for an "Om" symbol in white ink from him on my neck. Also done at the London Tattoo Expo.

October 9, 2005

Tattooed by navel with Samoan hand tools at the Londo Tattoo Expo.

October 10, 2005

Rib tear, right calf. Clown, right shin.

Assisted Roy Boy with color.

Applied my first tattoo on my arm at the Tattoo Factory in Chicago. It is now covered by a turtle.

Sailor redid the back tattoo, outlined the lower back and buttocks plaid, did the huge Phoenix tails on my legs, as well as most of the leg checkers. He took a half-assed attempt at a bodysuit and transformed it into what it is today.

Between 1995-1997 Sailor and I spent nine sessions together. I would work the night shift until 4AM and get to the Greyhound station around 6:30. I rode the bus from 7:30 until 10:30, had something to eat, then spent the next 8 hours getting tattooed. Moses would then drop me off just minutes before the return bus left the station.

The Phoenix tails are a memorial to my dead grandparents. I handed Moses the uncashed estate check as payment. We once did five sessions in two months. I was never stronger.

Moses has passed on. Sailor Cam Cook finished some of his work, and Richard Stell did a Phoenix on my neck in his memory 5 days after he died.

When Moses retired due to a terminal illness, Cam took completed most of his work, with Moses' blessings. Moses helped Cam apprentice 17 years before at Goldfield's Tattoo in San Francisco.

Cam did ten sessions in 8 weeks for $3,000 in the summer of 1997. He completed Moses' work on my back and buttocks, including the asscrack. He also did minor work on the left wrist and did the anchor/noose on the left anchor. Although the work was finished before Moses died, he never had the opportunity to see it. Shit!

Dennis did the original artwork on my chest and back (since redone), buttocks spirals, and torso graphics. He also did the Mammoth on my left side. He did at least 50 sessions on the bodysuit over a four year period for roughly $10,000.

The colors available today for tattooing are much more vibrant than those Dennis had, so about 70% of his work has been touched up by other artists (for about $12,000!).

I didn't care for her work, so her tattoos have been covered.

Eye Candy

Randy is my favorite artist, having done over 40 sessions on the bodysuit. He has worked on my head (excluding the Phoenix on my neck), hands and did the crying gril on the right outer knee. He also redid the chest and right arm.

On the right is a picture of me with Randy.

Freaky Tiki Tattoo

Craig is my guardian in New Orleans. He got me my job and believed in my project from the start. I couldn't have done the last 9 years without his friendship.

He did the crowd scene on both my legs, all the outline people in red and The Scream on my left inner thigh. He also did the blue outline man with the devil inside him on my right inner thight, and the hopscotch game on my right inner crotch.

He did a piece of shit shaped like England on my left forearm, too. I have 12 pieces of shit from various artists there, including "A jury of my 'pee-ers.'" He also tattooed a hot dog chasing a donut on my inner left knee.

Craig is one of those people whose verdict on me I appreciate.

Tony did the lettering and math wristbands. A good friend back then and a clean artist.

Richard did the Phoenix on my neck, the star wristbands, and the asshole in my armpit. BADASS!

Tattooed the fire in my crotch area.

Signed the bodysuit when he finished.

Freaky Tiki Tattooing

Shitstorm with golden showers.

Freaky Tiki Tattooing

Casper the Ghost on left hamstring.

Performed minor touch-ups on some existing tattoos.

Swallow shit.

Mardi Gras shit.

Puzzle shit.

Puzzle shit.

More About Katzen

Black outline model on left leg.

Lipstick print on right hamstring.

Pablo Picasso's Don Quixote on left leg.

Jester on left shin.

"Venganza" graffiti on left bicep.

High heel shit on left forearm.

Alien woman inside left knee.

Christmas shit.

Maze shit.

HTC Phoenix. Heart brand chest.

Sun design in groin area.

Fish shit. (since redone)

Winnie the Pooh shit.

Kyle is a bounty hunter who did a prison tattoo: the walking middle finger on my right calf.

Finished the leg checkers and did the Morton Spice Girl on my right hamstring. This was my 200th tattoo session.

Deadeye Tattoo

Mike Zeriengue (or Mike Z.) re-did my stomach sprial in the summer of 2002. (Dennis Dwyer did the original in 1990.) Mike also did the maze work and checkered my right foot, redid the left foot checkers, redid the left hip graphic, and finished the asscrack tattoo. He is in charge of the final touch up of all the solid black checkers in my bodysuit.

On the right is a picture of Mike Z. doing some touch-up work on my back.

Skull on lower abdomen.

Trophy lady on right hamstring.

Tatoo-A-Go-Go

Upside down / right side up tattoo on inner right thigh near knee.

Rose on right foot.

Image of Eddie from Iron Maiden on left shin.

Shark on left foot.

Wonder Woman in left crotch area.

Checkered sitting man.

Reaper on left leg.

Kilroy above left knee

Guy with hammer on left shin.

Pointing man on left knee.

Pregnant girl in checkered dress on right calf.

[sword swallower]

Signature on left ankle. R.I.P.

Child's drawing of blue girl on inner left knee.

Eye Candy

Jeremy was known as the prettiest man in New Orleans. He did the girl lifting skirt on left innercalf. Also retouched leg checkers.

Age 14. Now covered.

Green middle finger character with crtuch on left inner calf.

Fleur de Lis on right calf.

Rachel Gilbert of No Hope, No Fear Tattoo in Portland, Or. tattooed a 2nd kidney on my inner right thigh at the Portland Art Museum Sept 2nd, 2009. I was to celebrate my living a year since I almost died in april 2008. I was born with only 1 kidney. Now I have 2.