Since I posted the 47-spear prone kavadi, I’d like to also share Dust‘s first kavadi, a seated kavadi, by Chandler and Flo at Villa Vendex in Maastricht.
Another beautiful non-standard kavadi
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Advanced Static Rigging
47-spear Prone Kavadi
Thank you so much to Helasdottir for sharing this beautiful horizontal kavadi variation. The forty-seven steel spears have autoclavable screw on tips, and you can click here to see the rigging. She described the experience as both serene and intense — which I think is about ideal.
Balance per Magnus
The nails are INTENSE!
I like this play piercing corsetry, fish hooking, and full-on-nailing photo from MetallicAthlete.
Memorial Suspension
This photo is from a memorial suspension done last November with his father’s ashes. The suspension was facilitated by Steve Truitt and Ascension Suspension Team out of Albuquerque.
“Sinner”
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The rings are placed by Shawn O’Hare at The Pain Parlor in Oxnard, CA, but outside of the temporary body modification, I’m really struck by how thin and light-boned she is — I haven’t altered this picture in any way other than lighting.
Female Calf Suspension, Brasil
Surfave Weaving Heart Piercing
By Jason Romano at Biolab Piercing Studio in Houston, TX. He’s asked me to add that the heart is mis-shapen and unsymmetrical because it represents a battered heart.
