We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful The Suit Of Swords Daniel Ramirez. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with The Suit Of Swords below.

The Suit Of Swords, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

One of my biggest risks taken was fully investing myself into my art when I didn’t really have the confidence in me at the moment, I think it truly is something I see a lot of people experience and endure, there’s always the risk of failure but there’s also the risk of success. This goes back to when I was still a teenager right out of school and deciding that living in my car and making art would somehow one day lead me to a success path in art and in life.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My name is The Suit Of Swords and I am a visual artist. I dedicate the major part of my time to tattooing, I currently tattoo out of a private studio in South Austin, my tattoo work is all strictly black and is heavily focused around dark and emotional themes like death and love and every bittersweet moment felt in between. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with other mediums, mostly illustrations, murals or digital pieces all of which tend to stay to theme but stray the path colorfully. I started creating art as a young child with my mother and it quickly became something that always brought me joy, I decided then to pursue a life consumed by art. In my teenage years I committed my time to figure out a way to live as an artist while I was out living on the street with my friends, after lots of thinking and plenty of trouble, I found myself an ocean away from home drawing my heart out in a small room in my grandmother house. I quickly emerged myself into graffiti culture, something so. new yet so every day that it clicked instantly, as time went by I slowly developed a stronger connection to my art. Just like the writing on the walls I noticed writing all over skin , tattoos slowly caught my attention and long story short I can thank my sister for the best birthday gift I ever received, my first tattoo machine. Ten years down the line I can’t regret ever picking it up, its brought me more than I could ever have asked for and to this day I’ll forever be grateful for everyone who’s shown support and given me the honor to be apart of them forever.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

The most rewarding part of being an artist is living life through the view of an artist. Being genuinely free to lead yourself and do as you please. I believe that getting to focus your life around interpreting what you see and feel as an image makes life much more memorable. Art rewards me with life, a life different to others.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

Honestly one of the strongest resource to any artist is confidence. Ive been an artist my whole life and I’ve watched how crucial it is to really believe in yourself and in your craft enough to let it take you to where it needs to. You need to understand that anything really is possible and that everyone has it in them to create something genuine and worthy of appreciation or thought. I think the human mind really is a powerful tool that doesn’t get utilized correctly. It took me years to truly be confident enough to even call myself an artist.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.thesuitofswords.com
• Instagram: @thesuitofswords

Image Credits
Tony Moreno/ @darkmode.photo/ www.darkmodeatx.net