Samma Charles

Part of the Erotic Nightmares set that ran from 2020–2021, this piece named Trash Baby is a cover up on Molly!

True to form, Molly acting as my worst client, we finished the body and Molly tapped out. I cleaned off the stencil, stuck the second skin on her, and we went and sat in the waiting room of the old studio in Oxford.

After a few minutes she pipes up. She wants to finish the head. I've started tearing down for fuck's sake!

Anyway. We finish the head, which is where the main bulk of the cover up is, and add the neon a few months later.

Over the years, I've heard SO many people ask if it's Rocket. I don't know which version of that movie you've seen, but he didn't have tits... Nor a human body.

This kinda highlighted the issue that I'm having with a decade and a half of pop culture tattoos behind me and wanting to focus on my own niché.

* This piece was done in 2020. Photo from March 2026