How did you come to meet and be involved with Wim? Were you familiar with his work?

In 2006 Wim was part of a group show in the Zurich gallery, de Pury & Luxembourg. My girlfriend was working there and he approached her, saying that he was looking for a human being that he could do the same thing with as with his pigs. He wondered if she knew anyone and because I had a few tattoos she called me and told me one of her artists was looking for a person to tattoo and sell.

At the time I didn’t even know that she was speaking of Wim (whose work I loved for years), but I agreed immediately. It sounded wild, different and in today’s art world it was about time that a person was turned into a commodity.