British artist and Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller is sending pictures home from his three-week cross-country RV trip aimed at engaging “grassroots” conversations across America.

On March 31st, the “Conversations about Iraq” caravan ran into the kids from Enigma Tattoos in S. tLouis, Missouri. Iraqi artist Esam Pasha quickly learned how faster and easier it is to get a piercing than a homemade tattoo.

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