This flagellation scarification is by Gábor Zagyvai (www / more), Budapest, Hungary..
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32 responses to “Whipping Boy”
interesting…
I actually really like that piece.
My back is too sensative to get anything like this done.
i’m with stef, but its still cool looking…and probably less painful in the long run vs. whipping
that is just great. love it. absolutely love it.
very interesting piece..i wonder what it represents to the owner. any back story behind this?
@Stefunee – Lol, then you’d hate what I had done to mine 😛
wow, that turned out really beautifully. What a neat idea, too. I’m with trailerpark – would be interested to hear a back story.
i fucking love it.
this is wonderful
I like that a lot!
This wasn’t actually done with a whip was it? It looks way too clean for that.
I woulnd’t scar this… I would just do it myself… If it meant anything to me some whipping wouldn’t be any trouble for the marks which would remind me of whatever I did this for 🙂
VOMIT – Nope, it was all scalpel.
There’s no story as of yet but I’m waiting on a reply from Gábor and for some healing shots.
Patience is a virtue 🙂
indeed. and I will be waiting 😀
Expanding on that – When you submit images to BMEzine.com please do include as much information as you can, even if it’s in Hungarian we’ll do our best to work it out.
Köszönöm
I like, a lot.
Lovely.
So is this guy really buff or kinda overweight? he has a V shaped frame and veins in his foreamrs which would suggest buff, but that reflection of his front looks a little average
tom, thats because he is hunched over foward to stretch out/show off the entire back..you dont get a back like that from drinking beer and sitting on the couch!
@5. lol BACK story.
Whichever to the size of his body the piece is pretty cool
Wow..it’s a really neat idea..I can imagine this is going to be awkward while it’s healing.
But it’s going to look so good ^_^
i like it..
and i really love his hands, withthe veins popping out..:)
#15 okay, i will send more infos about the cuttigns that i post!:)
it was done with scalpel, and i cut him two times.
the story behind the man: this guy told me that he wants to feel the same pain that Jesus had during his whipping procedure. in my eyes it was very respectfull, but after i started cut his back he felt too much pain to control himself, and thats why i only made the left side of his back, and one day later i finished the whole work. so he wasn’t like Jesus:)
# köszönöm!szívesen!
thank you/ you’re welcome!
🙂
Roo, I’d be able to translate Hungarian as well… 🙂
# 26 inkább majd angolul teszem föl az infokat:)
Okay, I know that’s not the motivation behind this, but for some reason I am finding this WICKED hot.
i got shivers when i saw this because the first thing that popped into my mind was whipping during slavery and the horror of images of that, i can’t look at those without feeling sick thinking of what my ancestors went through and how terrible that experience must have been. I didn’t even think of Jesus or anything else, when whipping really has a multitude of historical and cultural connotations. My point is that I think it is really interesting the emotions and images or reference points something like this brings up. people see it and automatically think certain things and have certain reactions. Some people think it is hot, others automatically think of how hardcore the guy would have to be to get so much work done on his BACK, some think of sexual submission or dominance! On first glance I was slightly repulsed, not by the modification because I really think it is cool, but by the image that first popped into my mind when I saw it. For this guy it has absolutely a different meaning. Thats one of the reasons why modification is so amazing, its personal but it assumes this life the wearer or artist might never have intended or considered after its put on or through skin. awesome.
I dunno personally I think it’s really silly to get cut so it looks like you were whipped. If you want whipping marks, then just get whipped.
VOMIT – Scarification and whipping are two very different things, whip marks will bruise but they’re unlikely to last,
sadly whip marks don’t last at all, you have to be whipping REALLY hard to get that scared result and if you did then the result would not be nearly as clean and as obvious as this.