25 Futuristic Biomechanical Tattoos

If there is a body decoration that represents 21st century, nothing can beat Bio-Mech or biomechanical tattoos. They not only carry futuristic perception of the development of  civilization and reflect the fast development of science and mechanics interacting with living body, but are lightly interflowing with human skin being high quality pieces of art, nowadays mostly - 3D art that visually extinguish the border between skin and tattoo.

The world didn’t know the art of mechanical tattoos before the first decades of eighties in the previous century. These tattoos where inspired by science fiction literature and movies that grew from the idea of the development that would improve not only technical devices we use to make our daily life easier, but would also improve living bodies making us half-human and half-machines, like  Terminator or partial robots. While for some people this idea still seems frightening and depressing, and returning back to nature seems more appealing than getting excited with the fast development of science and mechanics, others put all their hopes on future seeing how science already helps to improve our health in a modern way and mechanics already get successfully involved into living bodies.

Another idea that stands behind biomechanical tattoos is that we humans and each person separately is a part of a big mechanism we are not truly aware of, just like we are not fully aware of the mechanics of our own bodies that is always there under the skin.  Although we see ourselves as half-way spiritual beings with free will, we remain mechanisms where not just our physical movements but also thoughts, moods and emotions are fully dependent on our inside mechanics, on programmes naturally installed into our bodies.

Biomechanical tattoo designs nowadays are truly impressive when made by the best tattoo artists designed to create the illusion that mechanisms – wires, gearwheels, tubes, pipes, clocks, screws, microchips and other kind of mechanization - are part of our bodies. Pretty often you will see these tattoos designed as the mechanics are right under the skin and can be seen where the skin is open – sliced, stripped or scraped off, unzipped, unbuttoned or open in any other way. Mechanics in these tattoos can be also combined with naturally looking parts of a skeleton, flesh, viscera and blood-vessels, but others design even flowers, birds and butterflies between the mechanical parts showing that each person carries a whole world inside or that mechanics and nature can exist together and doesn’t stand each against other.

Take in account that 3D tattoos with mechanic elements are usually pretty big as they wouldn’t be so impressive and delicately elaborated on skin if they were smaller.