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Since local tattoo artist Lydia Bruno was a young adult, she understood life better than most.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to make your own path in life,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cIf you wait for things to happen to you, you\u2019re just going to get lost in it; just end up settling for a life you really weren\u2019t meant to live in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old tattoo artist is suddenly on the national stage.\u00a0 Starring in Ink Master<\/i><\/a>, a hit television show on Spike TV, she enjoyed a two-month run before ultimately being eliminated from an initial field of\u00a016 artists.<\/p>\n

Already, it has impressed her toughest critic.<\/p>\n

\"localToday, Bruno lives in the Capital Region.\u00a0 But, she is the very definition of a cosmopolitan, having lived throughout the world, thanks in part to her father\u2019s career as a nuclear engineer.\u00a0 Originally born in London, Bruno has lived England, Canada, and the Netherlands.\u00a0 In the United States, she\u2019s lived on both the West Coast and the East Coast. As can be imagined, her father believes in a good education.<\/p>\n

After Bruno graduated high school, she pursued a career in mental health.\u00a0 She ultimately wanted to earn a PhD.\u00a0 But, as you read this, you can already tell that\u2019s not what happened.\u00a0 While enrolled in school, the opportunity to work at a local mental hospital presented itself. Valuing experience over schooling, Bruno leapt at the chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow, the experience,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cI\u2019m learning more in a day than I am in a month at the school.\u201d It coaxed her into dropping out of school to pursue a full-time job.\u00a0 The experience, she said, was worth it. \u201cIt was good,\u201d she said, \u201cbecause I realized that I hated it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruno toiled with her mental health career for four years.\u00a0 By chance, another opportunity presented itself when her roommate\u2019s boyfriend noticed her doodles. \u201cI\u2019ve been an artist all my life,\u201d she said. \u201cI never once thought to do something with my art. It\u2019s so much a part of me. It\u2019s like breathing! You don\u2019t make money off of it.\u201d He thought enough of her art to persuade her into an apprenticeship at a local tattoo shop.\u00a0 Working nights at the hospital, and days as an apprentice, it wasn\u2019t long before she was forced to a decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to follow my passion, so I went with the art side,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m on this Earth, I feel.\u00a0 I try to fight it. Sometimes I\u2019m like, \u2018Maybe I\u2019m on this Earth to do this job?\u2019 No. I\u2019m an artist. I can\u2019t fight it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearly a decade later \u2013 after dropping school, after quitting her career, after being cast onto the show \u2013 she receives a phone call. \u201c\u2019Your famous! I saw you on tv,\u201d says\u00a0an excited\u00a0voice on the other end of the telephone.\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re on a billboard in Times Square!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d Bruno says. \u201cNot bad for a hobby, huh, dad?\u201d<\/p>\n

Burn Your Own Path<\/em> was a motto taken from a skateboarding company Bruno and a partner started a decade ago.\u00a0 Custom designing decks naturally tapped into her creative nature.\u00a0 Her partner pulled out of the venture before it took off.\u00a0 The name has since developed into Bruno’s own personal mantra, of sorts.<\/p>\n

Bruno\u2019s creativity had also drawn her to the local stage. She was a teenager when her hardcore metal band, Catheter, was making the rounds in the Capital Region. They would be playing along such groups as Section 8, Skinless, Crisis and Stigmata at the QE2 (where the dance club, Fuze Box<\/a> is now located on Central Avenue). They went as far as cutting a record before ultimately disbanding. But, while on stage, she demonstrated her talents as a vocalist and a wordsmith, singing her words\u00a0out onto a\u00a0riot of dancing revelers.<\/p>\n

Whether it was a skateboard company, a heavy metal band, a graduate\u2019s degree in mental health, or a tattoo apprenticeship; Bruno has approached each opportunity with passion. \u201cI like to throw myself into things 100 percent,\u201d she said. \u201cI definitely put every fiber of my being into something I\u2019m doing.\u201d Which, as of late, has included amateur boxing.<\/p>\n

From the back of a weathered boxing gym, Bruno can be found jumping rope under the watchful eye of pro boxing trainer, Rick Sweeney.\u00a0 The snapping of her rope blends into a medley of sound that includes the thack-a-da-thack-a-da-thack-a-da<\/em> <\/i>of speed bags, along with the percussion of punches (and subsequent grunts) from two boxers who battle inside the ring.<\/p>\n

Even among the handful of women who are there, Bruno seems out of place \u2013 a little bit shorter, a tad bit smaller, maybe a little older. Despite this, she appears to have an air about her where others recognize she\u2019s no one to mess with. Maybe people are intimidated by her eyes, dark and blunt, especially when unaccompanied by a smile. Or, maybe by her tattoos, to which her tank top reveals plenty; from both \u201csleeves\u201d down her arms to the art that covers her chest and back of her neck. Regardless, such perceptions are based upon assumptions.\u00a0 Speaking with her melts away those preconceived judgments, and reveals someone entirely different.<\/p>\n

\"localFor starters, Bruno enlisted herself into an amateur boxing program at Sweeney\u2019s Boxing & Fitness in Delmar, New York.\u00a0 Sweeney, has produced two champion boxers out of his gym.\u00a0 One of which, Sarah \u201cThe Knockout\u201d Kuhn, who is responsible for introducing Bruno to the gym.\u00a0 All who walk into Sweeney\u2019s gym are immediately made aware of the no none-scene atmosphere.\u00a0 Those who seek training for amateur boxing are warned they must meet \u201chigh expectations\u201d or be asked to leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very passionate, and it may be overbearing [for some people],\u201d Bruno said. So much so, some people label her as a badass<\/i>. \u201cI believe the term badass is something other people put upon someone else that they don\u2019t understand.\u201d\u00a0 Nonetheless, it is a persona she\u2019s been asked to embrace while on television.\u00a0 \u201c(Laughs<\/i>.) I guess a lot of people have labeled me a badass.\u201d<\/p>\n

With careful editing and coaxing from show producers, Bruno is intense and unapproachable.\u00a0 It\u2019s something the show wanted to portray, she said. And, she agreed to play along. \u201cOkay, I\u2019ll go with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The premise of the show pits tattoo artists against each other in competition.\u00a0 Each episode focuses on a specific technique to which a panel of judges ultimately critique and eliminate one artist at the end of every episode.\u00a0 The margin of error \u201cis so slight,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cThey don\u2019t show how bad [the critique process] is. You\u2019ll have a line that is a little bit thinner than the other and you\u2019ll get blasted<\/i> for it.\u00a0 You can get eliminated for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the stress of competition is the drama involved with living with strangers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s basically, you\u2019re putting sixteen overly passionate artists in a loft,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cWe like to do things our own way. They are going to fight\u2026 A lot of people had a difficult time\u2026 On top of that we had to deal with the production side [of the show], which took hours and hours of every day. We were tired.\u00a0 We were cold.\u00a0 We were hungry. And, then, when that was done. There was a lot of standing. Going back, going forth.\u00a0 Out in the cold, pretending that it\u2019s summer. And, then it\u2019s 10 o\u2019clock at night, \u2018alright, competition starting. Here are your canvases!\u2019<\/p>\n

The biggest obstacle for me throughout the challenges was not being in my artistic comfort zone,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cI learned that I like to do art in my own time, in my own setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"localLike the images tattooed onto her own body, she draws back to things she\u2019s picked up along the path. She still picks up a pen.\u00a0 She writes prose and later posts it onto Facebook for her friends to read. (\u201cJust with the way my words come out on paper.\u00a0 Just writing and writing, and read it later and I\u2019d learn about myself. Same thing will happen with my art.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just zone out and start drawing. When I\u2019m done with a piece, I\u2019ll look at it and I won\u2019t realize that it came from me.\u00a0 It\u2019s like I\u2019m looking at someone else\u2019s art.\u201d<\/i>)\u00a0\u00a0 When she tattoos, she can listen to her music. (\u201cMusic is very important to me. I listen to \u201980s music when I tattoo. I listen to the 80s station on Pandora \u2013 Billy Joel, Flock of Seagulls. Stuff like that. I listen to hardcore metal, a little mix of everything. Every now and then the occasional Haddaway.\u201d<\/i>)\u00a0 The television show has lead to more phone calls; old clients offering up support and new ones from out of town calling in to have work done. It humbles her to remember how long it took to build her credibility with clients. (\u201cIt\u2019s been glamorized so much that everyone wants a hot girl tattooing them.\u00a0 But, back in the day, for the trailblazers, it was difficult.\u201d<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Now, she continues to box, something she had to abandon for the show. Another path she intends to burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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