A Lancaster tattoo artist has joined a national movement to cover up any racist symbols for free.
Richard Conrad has been a tattoo artist for 13 years. In that time, he has created body art and started his own business called Modified Studios in Lancaster.
Now, he is embarking on a new kind of creativity -- erasing symbols of racism.
"If that's not art, I don't know what is," Conrad said.
Conrad and artists in his studio have joined a national movement called "Project Hate Cover-Up."
"I'm on social media everyday and I was seeing so much animosity," Conrad said. "It blows my mind that people can actually have that much hate, especially for people they don't even know."
Conrad is offering five people free cover-ups for racist tattoos.
"Being in a penitentiary town, a lot of people different types of things to fit in or for protection or whatever and once they are released, they are like "this isn't me ... what we are trying to do is very blatant, like swatikas that are known as hatred," Conrad said.
Conrad says he is mostly seeing people interested in covering swastikas. He has three coverings scheduled for next week.