A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Animal Farm

What do you do if you’re a crazy Aussie modification artist that has leftover flesh from an earlobe reconstruction?  If your name is Joeltron, you make flesh cows.

Or in this case, an earlobe doll.

I’m sure Joel will pop up with the full story behind how that ear ended up looking like it did before the reconstruction.

Comments

6 responses to “Animal Farm”

  1. Vincent Avatar
    Vincent

    Must be quite an old guy/woman getting the reconstruction done !
    Considering the wrinkels / grey hair …

  2. Madi Avatar
    Madi

    In that bottom picture those “squid lobes” made me cringe. How does that happen? It looks like an older person tho. Maybe stretching and tearing…zombie attack? Joeltron did a great job considering what a mess he had to work with.

  3. B00M Avatar
    B00M

    either had a horrible accident or once had some really awesome modded ears either way quite interested to find out whats going here

  4. Nienke Avatar
    Nienke

    Cheese cutter effect?

  5. Joeltron Avatar

    Correcto! The ‘squid lobe’ is from an older lady who got her ears pierced a number of times and wore VERY heavy earings for quite a number of years.

    When one would migrate out (slowly cutting through her ear, downwards) she would just get them re-pierced above the old one and the same thing would happen again.

    Her tissue was quite fragile and lacked in elasticity, however we were able to give her relatively normal looking lobes again and from what I last heard she has had them re-pierced (correctly this time!) and is not going to wear heavy earrings again.

    This procedure was done a few years ago, however I never got a good healed photo of them (the ‘healed’ picture is only around 2 months old when taken).

  6. Alex Avatar

    HAHAHA WOW!

    As someone that grew up on a farm, this is pretty intense. HAHAHA I love it.

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