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Wido de Marval
The Water Boy
Interview by Crash
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Crash: Okay. Give us your name, your shop name, location and how old you are.
Wido: Okay, Wido de Marval. I'm 29 years old—actually I'm going to be 30 in a few months. I work in Lausanne. The name of the studio is Water Studio because I'm the "Water Boy."
That's my tattooer's name in Japanese.
Yeah?
Horimisuotoko. It came from a joke. We were in the shop with Alex when I was at Filip's and I was showing him the stuff I got tattooed on myself from Filip—to a customer actu-ally. And the customer was like, "You're a water boy." I am, you know, full of water everywhere. And then Alex came a few days after and I showed him this stuff and he’s like, "Hey, you're water boy." You know? So he came up with the idea.
How do you spell that? Hori...
Horimisu? M-i-s-u-o-t-o-k-o.
Cool.
So I work in the "Water Studio."
And it's brand new?
Yeah I opened in July, ‘06. I just stayed in Lausanne. It's my hometown. I didn't want to step on anyone's feet, you know? I mean it's a small town. I tried to make sure it wasn't too much in the area.
Only Filip.
Yeah. I tried to make things okay, you know? I told him like 8 months in advance, did he care. I needed to do my own thing. We'll get to that. How long have you been tattooing? For about 8 1/2 years.
Did you—were you doing a lot of art before you started tattooing?
Yeah, I was drawing a lot for...I was doing little comic strips for some friends' magazines and…When I was back in school, I was always making caricatures of the teachers and I would give them the drawing for Christ-mas, you know? I was always drawing. I was drawing in the little college magazine. I've always been drawing. My grandmother, she was a painter. And my father is a collector, so he's collecting like China, Japan, and Ti-bet. He's one of the world’s specialists for Indonesian blades. And so I've always been surrounded with art, you know? And I was pretty much into Japanese stuff when I was a kid. So this was really good.
Yeah, it’s pretty cool that your dad's a collector.
He's got many prints and it was always good when he was taking them out of the folders, you know? It was a big time.
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