This cozy, invite-only event allowed him not only to receive advanced modifications, but enabled him to witness the pioneering practitioners of many body modification techniques at work, including Steve Haworth, Blair, and Allen Falkner. In 20, Neeko attended the BMEzine ModCon events in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Neeko got his start as a professional body piercer in 1997 at Visual Impact Body Piercing and Tattoo in Upstate New York, where he was apprenticed by Joseph Castellaneta. He was not exhibiting or documenting these Piercings, and went to great lengths to conceal them.Īfter Neeko's family discovered his secret, he eventually befriended a local fledgling body piercer Eventually, these could be removed quickly, often for several hours before re-inserting under more private conditions. He executed all of his Piercings with sewing needles, safety pins, or screws, and healed all with traditional earlobe studs and rings of varying designs. In 1990, at age eleven, due to stress from within his home and an undying curiosity concerning the sacred realms, Neeko secretly started Self-Piercing in private rituals he held with himself.
He was raised Pentacostal in Elmira, NY, but family life was far from perfect. He compared these other cultures to his own, and saw the lack of connection to Spirit in his consumerist society, and the ways in which people (his own family included) were suffering, often needlessly, to keep up in an unforgiving rat race, emotionally driven by a panicked need for acquiring new possessions. His “research” in National Geographic showed Neeko that self-awareness, physical pain and informed intent can combine to help one persevere and attain their next level of growth. The other was rife with regions far away, researched and documented by brave souls who risked their own lives to show him what he rarely saw the Western World. One focused on consumption and the inflation of worth. Neeko took note of the differences he saw between the two worlds of publishing. Their presence, and the secrets they held, were always taunting him, as he was only occasionally allowed to peruse their pages. His grandparents' home had a stash of them, occupying a five foot length of floor level shelving. He enjoyed reading catalogs of all sorts, memorizing and tracking the specifications of many electronics and other goods, but most especially, his Christmas wish-list. A very early interest in what he later realized were the fields of cultural anthropology and class economics, led Neeko to take notice of body piercing as a ritual practice.
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