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Scott Harrison
Who Are "These People"
Interview by Oliver Peck
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First of all tell us you're a little bit of background and personal
history starting off with; place of birth, your age, stuff
like that.
Um, born in Oklahoma. I'm forty-three. What
else? (Laughs)
All right. Give us a quick little background
history on growing up, where you
moved and where you ended up living for
your school years.
Okay, born in Oklahoma, lived there for
about six weeks—born on an Air Force
base. I moved to Newark, New Jersey,
where I spent my childhood. Then, I moved
to New York City for a couple years. Pretty
much all of public school was in Massachusetts.
And then I went to art school,
also Massachusetts. And then I moved to
Berkeley, California, New York City, back
to Boston, started tattooing in Boston in
my apartment. I moved to Chicago to apprentice
with Bob Oslon.
Slow it down. What schools did you go to
after high school?
I went to the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts and Tufts University.
And where is that?
Massachusetts.
Massachusetts. And you
were how old when you
got out of that?
Uh, around 21 or 22.
And then you started
tattooing?
Not for a few years. I
didn't start tattooing
until I was about 24 or
25.
And you started tattooing
on your own?
Yes, out of my apartment.
It was illegal in
Massachusetts.
But then you moved...
To Chicago.
To Chicago, where you met up with Bob
Oslon; so how did that meeting come
about?
I was running an art-moving company in
Boston, which was quickly going out of
business. I had a friend who moved to
Chicago who was working for UPS. There
were no jobs in Boston so I figured I would
just move out there and work for UPS, or
whatever. I had already tried going around
New Hampshire and stuff with my little
drawings—my little pointilist drawings and
showing ‘em to people and seeing if they
would take me on. That was highly unsuccessful.
And I went to Chicago and my first
day there, I went to two shops. In the second
shop was Bob Oslon. I brought these
drawings...
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