Biomechanical Tattoo design

Biomechanical tattoos are not very deep rooted like the normal tattoos which are growing about 5000 years deep into the soil of body adornment. Inspired by the work of Swiss Surrealist H.R. Giger, the biomechanical style of tattooing gained prominence in the later 1980’s and early 1990’s.

Biomechanical tattoo designs include mechanical and biological things. In a way you can say these tattoos are an amalgamation of new technology and our body parts like motors, pipes, tubes, skulls, and jagged bony shapes. Being a complicated design - it is difficult to find a tattooist who can confidently and flawlessly ink it on your skin.

Mainly Biomechanical tattoos are in black and grey but now days you’ll find few fine tattoo artists who can ink these dull tattoos in very bright and colorful designs, and one among them is Trevor Wilson of Lucky 7 Tattoo in West Palm Beach, Florida.

I came across the works of Thomas Kynst a tattooist from Dynamite-Kynst Ateliers Studio in Deventer, Netherlands. While exploring his tattoo work, I noticed that his few pieces had something common – eyes!

Yes, his some pieces are only of beautifully inked eyes or a tattoo focusing upon eyes. I am not saying that his work only attributes eye tattoos but I noticed that he masters/likes inking eyes.

The pieces shown here are of eye tattoos by Kynst, first tattoo is that of two eyes inked on the back just below the neck - the eyes are so well etched that they look like our real eyes with bridge. The other tattoo is well placed on the back side of neck - a single eye shows his artistry in inking an eye which is about to cry.

Today, while exploring Flickr Museum I came across this tattoo on the back of a man in the remote village of the west coast of South Africa. Thanks to Jan Tik for submitting the piece. The black ink tattoo is a poem which makes a huge backpiece covering whole back with it’s words