This is work from the Brutal Black project, a piece of tattoo performance art / performative masochism. They produced some really fascinating art of very slightly dubious morality.
What a wild watch. I cannot comprehend extreme body modification but I find it fascinating. As for the brutal black project inflicting pain as a rite of passage? That's pretty standard human behavior, just turned up a good bit. Honestly getting brutal tattoos like that for free is a good deal if you're into it and can handle it. Again, don't understand insane coverage like that, but damn if it doesn't look good.
Another thing though, I cannot imagine the healing process for that shit. Friend got a decently sized forearm tat recently and was pretty fucking uncomfortable for a while. Getting absolutely blasted by needles on a huge swath of your body? I feel like getting the tattoo wouldn't even be the worst part.
There's a subset of people who, whenever any extreme experience is brought to the cultural stage, insists that it must be the work of sadistic sociopaths and on that baseless grounds is clearly morally reprehensible. My own opinion is that, much like with the mob hatred for Russ McKamey, everyone involved is weird as fuck but they're also consenting adults and we should really just let people do their thing.
The chest and shoulder look great. The face? Not so much. There’s no cohesion of concept there. They have too much ink on their forehead, and it’s too faded.
Looks like the lines on the face, at least on the right side and not the forehead, are fake/paint. There's a line right in front of his ear that looks like wet paint that hadn't been smeared.
I would love a blackout with an inverse anarchy symbol but I am 100% sure that because it can't be a true blackout it would end up looking something like this stylised crap.
Does this count as linework? My understanding of linework is that it's lines that are done in one or two passes, usually with smaller needle counts. Not quite the same as fine line style, but similar? With large blocks like this, you can correct mistakes on the borders by expanding it outward.
Somehow I don't think censoring this gentleman's eyes is going to prevent him from being recognised...
"Stealth" across the forehead. Is this one of those ironic tattoos?
Like do the face tattoos make you "extra sneaky" at night or what?
If only there were less permanent options available...
It worked on me, I have no idea who he is.