Exploring the Biomechanical Tattoo
Jun 22, 2009 YellowMan Xpress • send to a friend
YellowMan celebrates some of today's top Biomechanical Tattoo artists. Take a moment to explore work by the tattoo artists creating the fantastic worlds beneath your skin. You can also jump to YellowMan's biomechanical tattoo clothing selections here.
At one point or another, we all have been fascinated with how things work, whether it be the cogwheels, springs and sprockets of a ticking watch or the pulse of a fleshy heart. In 1979 Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger's nightmarish, biomechanical world in Ridley Scott's movie Alien captured our imaginations and launched a dark, biomechanical tattoo movement. Tattoo artists now imagine the complex machine lurking beneath our skin; our alternate identity manifested in a physical form. As Dr. Jekyll so aptly put it, "In each of us there are two natures."
Biomechanical wizard Guy Aitchison is one of tattoo's biggest heavyweights. Influenced by artists Salvador Dali, M.C. Escher, Alex Grey, and H.R. Giger, Guy Aitchison metamorphoses the human canvas into masterful works of living art. More
Aaron Cain's biomechanical style is derived from a variety of influences outside traditional tattooing. He looks to architecture, ironwork, sea life and nature. Aaron feels strongly about never using other tattoos as reference material. He sums it up in one word: cannibalistic. More
Robert Hernandez is probably best known for his insane portraits. A master of detail and realism, he believes he can tattoo anything that can be drawn or painted. More
Coming up on his first decade of pushing ink, Phil Holt has paid his dues and put on some miles. Beginning in Florida, he then moved on to Ohio, Chicago, San Jose and back to Tampa, Fla. More
Henri Riton has been creating tattoos in the biomechanical style for several years now: "It is a style that suits me well". More
Ben Wahhh doesn't like to be pigeonholed into one style, but when cornered he would definitely say that he loves biomech, or as he puts it the biowreck. More
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