On Tony's sixteen birthday he was in the orient on a ship as an able bodied seaman. His shipmates decided he needed to celebrate the day in style; as a consequence he lost his virginity and got a tattoo. A beautiful and delicate Chinese dragon which infected badly, but it healed. Over the years he had small extras added. One of them was written around the dragon: Life is a bowl of blue soup and loving. A short while later he did away with the 'and loving' by having flowers tattooed over it. I am not sure which girlfriend didn't quite fulfill his dreams in 1982. This powerful self portrait is part of his friend the veterinarian Arnold De Paepe's collection with the tittle A België song...
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