Scarification by Bruno

I think this might be the first cutting we’ve featured by my friend Bruno; and it hopefully won’t be the last.
You can see more of his work/get in contact with him through his his website.

Scarification can be a lengthy undertaking, particularly with cuttings that require flesh removal. To keep yourself from being worn down by the repetitive cut/peel/cut/peel process, you have to get creative. Like Brian and Wayde on this collaborative piece done at SW3. When life hands you lemons, make lemonaid. When life hands you strips of human flesh… make a tic tac toe board.

I think Brian originally posted this flesh removal back in November…. He finally posted a healed picture on his IAM.BME page which I took the liberty of stealing for the scar blog. Brian mentioned that the client plans to continue this design; can’t wait to see where he takes it.

Ron Garza just dropped this into my email box…

During a recent scarification workshop I was giving recently at BMX.net in Germany I was going to do a tissue removal workshop with the single line cutting workshop I also gave, but because of the design chosen( swastikas), and due to our understanding of certain legal factors at the time (like displaying a swastika in public, in Germany being Illegal), I decided not to have do the tissue removal workshop and had an impromptu workshop for a select few in a much more relaxed environment.

The design Lassi chose was in the shape of the Hindu good fortune swastikas, which most of you ( at least i hope most of you ) know is an ancient symbol over 3000 years old that only in our lifetime has became a symbol of hate.

It seemed fitting we do this in Germany , while listening to hip hop, and ironically enough, it was a brown man, making an Scandinavian Aryan bleed! I had to have a laugh and share with all of you.

Lassi being perpetually hungry, ended up disposing of the remnants.. ahh those Crazy Fins..

Living the Dream,
Ron Garza

(More pics by Damien Kenny after the break!)

Brian Decker was working at the Philadelphia Tattoo Convention again this year; I crept up behind him and caught an “artists eye view” shot of him working on the always lovely Joli. Cutting at conventions is still sort of surreal to me. I guess we’ve reached a point where it’s just something people expect to see. (judging from the comments I overheard)

Photo of the finished cutting follows the break.

Claire and I are headed out to Texas for the Dallas Suscon tomorrow; I’ve packed the leica, two video cameras and the waterproof to document our journey. While most of what we capture will likely be suspension related, we’ll do our best to grab new photos for the scarblog.

Ron Garza checked in with this cutting the other day; I’ve finally found time to sit back and check my inbox; sorry for the lack of posting recently, but what can you do.

The design (on Chris from High Priestess in Oregon) was roughly taken from a batik tapestry print that Ron got while traveling through Indonesia a few years back.

Regular updates will resume soon!

When I saw this photo on Ryan’s IAM page, I thought “weird. Ryan looks like he’s wearing a Freddy Krueger sweater” and had a good chuckle.

Then I saw this cutting. Connected? I think so.
You can find Ryan at PBA Scars.

The last time we featured Peck, he was covered in blood. The time before that, he was surrounded by sexy.

I figured it was about time to feature a cutting he did; a flesh removal on the everlovely Miss Maia B. who would like to point out that the photograph I chose was taken in a mirror and the cutting is actually XOXO. I was distracted there for a second. <3

I hadn’t planned on updating tonight, but as I sat down to watch a movie and prepare for the threat of a major snowstorm I happened upon new cutting by my poutine loving friend Efix Roy.
He says this lettering took approximately two hours. Clean work as always. I’m counting the months till my summer trip to spend some time in Quebec City with Efix- until then….

Tabarnak!

I sat here for a few minutes trying to come up with some clever title for today’s update; Efix from Quebec City is responsible for the work, but as for a title…. nothing came to me. I kept thinking of a Journey album cover, so in the spirit of the design….

Efix has been turning out some amazing work lately; I considered several kickass pieces before deciding on this removal. I’ll bug him for healing/healed photos.

You can contact Efix via his bmezine.com page: Efix@iam