Realistic portraiture in tattooing represents, for every tattoo artist, a challenge of balance. Precision and sensitivity play together: precision tied to faithfulness to the reference image, and sensitivity in personal interpretation, in the artist’s ability to capture an expression or a specific detail on which to cast light.
In the gallery we present here, anonymous faces meet iconic figures; private stories interact with imaginary narratives that have entered the collective imagination, all united by the same search for truth.
Each portrait is born from an obsessive observation of detail: a barely suggested gaze, the texture of skin or fur that restores presence and three-dimensionality.
Alongside human faces, the animal world becomes a privileged field for the same visual investigation, where eyes, expressions, and variations of light make the difference between a simple photographic image and a tattoo that becomes a narrative tool rather than an exercise in artistic virtuosity.
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