The lobster returns.
Healed cutting over black ink by NYC’s Brian Decker of Pure Body Arts.

In November of 2010 we featured a fresh and healing ambigram cutting by the super talented Christian Bedics; he’s just checked in with a more recent picture and all I could say was “wow”.
This is at a year healed.

Fresh and healed work by Keylan Liveane. He says that the healed cherry/plum blossoms are between three and four years old.

A healed/fresh one-two punch from Syracuse New York’s own John J. Joyce.
John says that the healed work is around five years old, and that the fresh work provided quite a challenge.

Technology is a wonderful thing; yesterday I got a text from John Joyce telling me to check my email which was about to be filled with amazing pictures of Ryann’s leg. Healed and fresh!

John said that the healed cuttings are around three months old. I’ll see if we can get Ryann to send us another healing update as these newest additions settle in.

Our friend Wikipedia has this to say about ambigrams:
An ambigram is a typographical design or artform that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation. The words readable in the other viewpoint, direction or orientation may be the same or different from the original words.

This is the second cutting we’ve featured from our new friend Chris Bedics; fresh and healed.

Scarwars was started as a means of communication between artists; in a trade where most artists had never met one another we encouraged the idea of working on collaborative pieces at our events. Different artists with different styles and techniques working on the same client leads to really amazing results.

While not done at one of our events, Teresa has a great set of scars that came from the talented hands of Ron Garza and Wayde Dunn. I don’t know the specifics- maybe they each did one side, maybe they works on both sides together; regardless of the hows and who’s this piece shown here at approximately four years, is pretty dang awesome.

The fresh cutting.

I’m a firm believer in showing healed scarification here on the SW blog; to give accurate documentation on pieces regardless of how they eventually heal.

Today’s update is from Jesse “This Charming Man” Villemaire of Thrive in Canada; showing the fresh cutting and update at two years. The texture and definition are amazing; and to be honest it’s been way too damn long since I’ve posted anything by Jesse.

Healed Cutting by Brian Decker

A few weeks ago we featured an amazing fresh cutting by Brian Decker; clean lines, simple design and great placement. I just checked up on his blog and found a healed photo.

Healed photos are all too infrequently sent to the artist; tattooists, piercers, scarification and modification artists all have the same complaints. So let this be a reminder- when your work heals, snap a photo and send it to your artist. They’d appreciate it. (and so would we!)