#body-modification

#body-modification

Neil Hopper, a vascular surgeon, is accused of amputating his own legs to fraudulently claim over $600,000 in insurance money, asserting his injury was due to sepsis.

The adjustments made to the sentences to allow for the unusual circumstances were reasonable and proportionate. The sentences were intended to give a message to anyone minded to engage in highly dangerous procedures involving body modifications.

In the opening moments of A Body to Live in, we are confronted with black-and-white photographs from 1944 showing Roland Loomis, a precursor to the modern primitive movement.

"It takes like three hours - you have to get there three hours earlier to cover all your tattoos, because for some reason, people in movies, they don't have them that much."

Pippa Garner's innovative works were driven by curiosity rather than political agenda, combining humor with a critique of society's norms surrounding art and consumerism.