Alberto Ferreras |
Santa Cristina de la Polvorosa (Zamora) (EFE) or sale of “pearcings”, but in a small town in Zamora there is a tattoo artist willing to ruin market studies.
«Rural Tatoo» appears written next to two tattoo guns in the logo and at the door of a business opened four years ago in Santa Cristina de la Polvorosa (Zamora) by Pedro Ferrero, who after working in a nursery in Asturias and as an educator of street in Zamora one day he decided to risk and give free rein to his true vocation, painting and drawing, but substituting the canvas for the skin for the strokes.
During this time, work has not been lacking, although for this he has had to attract clients from abroad because if not, the more than 1,500 tattoos that have come out of his studio would be enough to tattoo each and every one of the residents of his town once. , and half of them would already go for their second engraving.
His is the ink on the skin of emptied Spain, the success story that shows that, despite the difficulties and no matter how specialized it is, there is also room to open your own business in rural areas.
“Opening a tattoo parlor in a town of less than a thousand inhabitants was crazy that no one but me entered the head,” admitted this entrepreneur who managed to dispel his wife’s reluctance after suffering a tumor in the neck that made him rethink the priorities in his life.
It was then, a little over four years ago, when he began to “fight for a dream that was mine and it couldn’t be anywhere other than the town,” this tattoo artist with a rural soul has confessed because he was born and raised in a town.
Locating his studio in a small town also has its advantages, since the pace is slower than in the cities and Pedro can afford to do no more than two jobs a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
In this way, you can spend more time on each of the tattoos and guarantee their personalization, since one of your commitments is that the engravings are unique, unless it is a replica for sentimental reasons, such as those that are made the same one partner, siblings or parents and children.
Pedro Ferrero has clients not only in his town, but also throughout the Benavente and Los Valles region, in other parts of the province of Zamora and in areas such as La Bañeza and Astorga in León, while in holiday periods he adds as “regulars”. to vacationers who usually live in Madrid, Barcelona or the Basque Country.
In this way, Santa Cristina de la Polvorosa, which became a tattoo center when it opened in the smallest town in Castilla y León, has maintained a business these four years as a result of “a madness that could have turned out fatally but has turned out very Well, I’m delighted, “admitted this tattoo artist.
Before specializing in working with the needle and the tattoo machine, Pedro Ferrero had shown some of his pictorial works in galleries and exhibitions but now he sees his artistic works become a traveling exhibition that is shown wherever the tattooed people go.
They include people of all ages, such as a client who came a few weeks ago with her 79-year-old mother to have her first skin print done.
He also receives requests of all kinds, such as a urinal that he was asked to tattoo because it was a work of art by Duchamp or “a sad carton of milk.” It was not that it was very sad to tattoo that object, but rather that the woman who requested it wanted the dairy container to have a sad expression because she is lactose intolerant. EFE