Surrealism
Surrealism lets realism break its own rules — moon phases orbiting a face, an eye opening inside a pyramid, money dissolving into teeth. Fabio renders these ideas with the same photographic technique as his portraits, so the impossible reads as real from across the room. Bring a feeling, a symbol or a half-formed idea to a consultation at his Bay Park studio in San Diego.
Surrealism tattoos in San Diego — dreamlike black and gray compositions by Fabio Fontinelle
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Realism, unbound
Fabio's surreal pieces start where his realism ends: photographic rendering, smooth black and gray shading and deep contrast, applied to images that could never be photographed. The result reads as real from across the room and reveals its logic up close. These are his favorite collaborations — clients bring a feeling, a memory or a symbol, and together they sketch a composition that exists nowhere else. Surreal concepts scale from a single forearm piece to a full sleeve, planned at a consultation at his Bay Park studio on Morena Blvd.
