Steve Haworth

While traveling abroad I had the honor of doing a scarification piece on a Lutheran Priest. I have done lots of work on religious figures in the past, but these were usually small and places that were easily concealed. CooKie spoke with the Priest about the idea and concepts of the design as well as the creation of the design and the CooKie did a beautiful job. Likewise the priest also did it beautiful job of being very calm during the work. Ironically this piece is done in Calm body piercing in Stockholm in which Chai and his partner graciously allowed us to use their studio. As you know I very rarely put up pictures of fresh work, I prefer healed work and am looking forward to getting a healed photo of this piece but I thought the story behind it was worth the premature post.

Scarification piece on a Lutheran Priest

J.D. is a very accomplished piercer, and also very Irish hence three leaf clover. We designed a 3 leaf clover using 3 1/2 hearts silicone glued together. This picture is about 3 1/2 months old. Oh did I mention he’s also a professional martial arts expert? I really like the piece and I really like the fact that a professional fighter properly wrapping a 3-D modification during martial arts training does not hamper or impede his lifestyle. One of the reasons why I am a proponent of cast silicone in the back of the hand. We also did some scarification on his face and forehead.

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