Bodies of Power

Abstract

ANDREW, A YOUNG BODY MODIFIER IN HIS 20S, HAS UNDERGONE hundreds of hours of tattooing, body piercing, scarification, branding, and self-surgery. He studies anatomy textbooks and has performed surgery on his own body using laser technology, scalpels, sutures, and local anesthetics. With these and other implements, and with the assistance of other body modification artists, he has carefully modified his face, back, arms, torso, earlobes, genitals, wrists, and ankles, and has added over one hundred various piercings to his body.