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Brooklyn tattoo artist Travis Fountain builds international practice on client trust and surrealist monochrome designs

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Tom May

3mo ago· 4 min readenNews

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Travis Fountain is a Brooklyn-based tattoo artist who works exclusively in monochrome, producing surrealist, narrative-driven tattoos. His unique approach involves clients bringing feelings rather than mood boards or specific references, trusting him to create the artwork entirely. This radical premise has built him an international practice, standing in stark contrast to the typical creative industry experience where such client trust is rare.

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Travis is a Brooklyn-based tattoo artist who works exclusively in monochrome, producing surrealist compositions that look less like tattoos and more like stills from films yet to be made
Clients bring feelings, not mood boards, and he does the rest
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The Brooklyn-based tattoo artist has built an international practice on a radical premise. Clients bring feelings, not mood boards, and he does the rest. There's a running joke in the creative indust...

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