TRT: 24:00
A documentary on Chicago native, Larry Rogers, aka Blu Bak, a retired engineer who, while working a white collar job, collected tattoos for over 60 years creating a “full suit” without ever rolling up his sleeves at work, keeping his art collection a secret. We met when he called up and asked if he could drop by our gallery opening of tattoo art in 1980 and came wearing only a black leather G-string. I became intrigued with his jokingly apt moniker of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide as he was a closeted exhibitionist and pacifist/rebel. I was intrigued by his dichotomy of being a vegetarian teetotaler who would show up to my annual Thanksgiving dinner with his dog by his side, money in a band-aid box and a gun in his duffle.
Chicago Reader Review: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/illustrated-man/
