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Recently Efix Roy had a chance to do a guest spot at Exotix Studio in Toronto, home of Six. Well, these two artists came together to produce an incredible collaborative scarification piece. This graffiti inspired chest piece took about 4 hours to complete.
As always, you can check out more work by Efix in his scarification gallery.
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This week the Friday Follow-up is taking a look back at a scar that was ModBlogged back in August. Gabor’s OM scarification piece had a few people confused as to where exactly it was located on the body, but the healed pictures today clearly show the scar around the navel. Before we get to the healed picture, lets check out the fresh cutting.
To see how the scar has healed in the past few months, keep on reading.
Don’t ask me how the outie turned into an innie, I just don’t know.
If you’d like to check out more of Gabor’s scarification work, take a look in his BMEzine scarification portfolio gallery. While you’re there you can check out other artists that have been featured in the Friday Follow-ups, like John Joyce, Brian Decker, Efix Roy, and many more.
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With the Friday Follow-up we get a chance to see scars and brandings months and years after the initial session. It allows us to see the result of scarification process over time, which for many can be a contributing factor in their decision to get a scar. Of course everyone heals differently, but it can give people some ideas of what to expect from the process.
What we don’t often see is the early stages of healing. Those first few days before the scabs start to form, when it is just an open wound. Last week we saw a scar of the BME heart logo by John Joyce on a young woman named Casey. We got to see the cutting as it was being done, and completed, just moments before the dressing was applied.
Casey was kind enough to send in another image which was taken just after the first cleaning of the scar. It’s interesting to see the scar this fresh, but without the blood that is present when the cutting first takes place. Hopefully Casey continues to send in images of the healing process so we can all see some of the steps involved in the healing of a scarification piece.
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It’s always interesting to see a master at work, and when that master is John Joyce, you can expect to see something fantastic.
Curious as to what John is cutting? Keep on reading to find out.
Casey Nichols sent in these pictures of her BME Heart cutting, and the larger versions can be seen in the BME Logo Scarification gallery. Also, if you’re interested in seeing more of John’s work, check out his own gallery.
Hopefully we get some pictures of the scar down the line for a Friday Follow-up post.
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A lot of the scarification pictures that we see are often clean. What I mean by that is they’re taken after the work has been finished, and the site has been cleaned up for a good photo. That or we see the healed scar some time later. One of the most significant aspects of scarification is the process. It’s not always just about the final result.
With a scar you have those first few cuts of the outline going in. The blade slicing open your body, breaking the surface of your outer shell. As it continues, the blade becomes a paintbrush, with every stroke a work of art being crafted out of your own flesh. Then the removal begins. These lines that have broken your skin are now used as point to remove whole sections of your flesh. As your armor peels away, you become exposed fully to the world. That thin layer of protection is forever gone, and you are forced to show the world what is truly inside you. Then as the scar begins to heal, a new layer begins to take the place of the old. While that old layer was a small barrier to the outside, this new barrier, having come from within is tougher, stronger, ready to show off what has come from deep inside you.
The process of a scar isn’t meant to be pristine. It is a raw experience, where you shed not only your flesh, but your blood. It is a cleansing ritual where the outside is removed, cleaned with the blood, and healed by the body into something new. While other modifications use metal and ink as a form of expression, the scar is created entirely by the body. Of course ink and metal can be incorporated into it depending on who the person is, but the process is on a base level the same.
In a recent addition to the skin removal scarification galley, we can see just how revealing this process is. Here you have a person in the process of having their flesh removed, revealing the person buried just beneath the surface.
And here we have the final shot of this portion of the process, the traditional clean picture.
The rest of the images from the cutting can be found in the scarification gallery. And yes, there is more blood.
