Fakir Musafar

Roland Loomis (August 10, 1930 – August 1, 2018), known professionally as Fakir Musafar, was an American performance artist and early artist of the modern primitive movement. He worked with and taught body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and flesh hook suspension.

In May 2018, Musafar announced on his website that he was suffering from terminal lung cancer. He died from the disease on August 1, 2018 in Menlo Park, California, aged 87.

References

Other websites
 National Geographic documentary Taboo 
 Biography
 Body Modification E-zine interview 
 Excerpt of interview - Discusses modern primitives, from RE/Search

Category:1930 births
Category:2018 deaths
Category:Deaths from lung cancer
Category:Cancer deaths in California
Category:People from Aberdeen, South Dakota
Category:Artists from San Francisco