Italian tattoo artist Pietro Sedda brings a strange new perspective to portrait tattoos by smearing the faces of his subjects across his human canvas. The result has a psychological element to it, and because of the realistic nature of the tattoos, a surrealist effect is created. The technique gives his portraits an inhuman appeal. The act of morphing the faces seems to bring out the personality of the characters. Suddenly, a facial expression that ordinarily would have been viewed as friendly and engaging becomes threatening or disturbing. Sedda’s portrait tattoos have a darker element than those of other artists’, because it is not only the subject’s facial expressions that give meaning to the design; the simple act of warping the faces creates a secondary level of symbolism. Read more Pietro Sedda’s Twisted Tattoos ›