🤘 Sphinx's story begins not with a tattoo machine, but with a can of spray paint. He was born in San Jose in 1974, and as a young kid in the early '80s, he was drawn to graffiti after watching Beat Street. He began his tattoo career in 2001 at Metamorphic, where he apprenticed under Andy Johnson. Today you can find Sphinx tattooing at Current Tattooing.

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