but tattoos have long since become an integral part of our visual culture and today the reason exhibited in museums like the pushkin museum of fine arts in moscow where an exit. originally commissioned in paris covers more than 3000 years of one of the earliest body modification practice. are unique and somewhat disturbing way of displaying more. but don't worry these are not the perfectly preserved limbs of the ceased to barras these body parts are made of silicone. say with certitude using a stablish techniques by some of the world's leading tattoo artists. thanks of course it's not skin our artists did the tattoos just as they would with human skin with a tattoo machine the silicon does not always absorb the pigment completely but it's the closest you can get to human skin and it's announced a tattoo to be shown researchers say in its natural habitat if you exhibit that. chattering has been practiced for thousands of years originally it was performed for social religious and mystical reasons. attaching wasn't conceived of as being an art form it was an applied to the body 1st that reasons for the most part it had many other more im