Realistic biomechanical tattoo covering the back of a hand, with copper-toned metal plates, rivets and mechanical joints running over the fingers.

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Biomechanical hand tattoo

Realism · Hand · Mixed · Photo

A hand is covered with a biomechanical design made of metal plates, rivets, pipes and mechanical joints that wrap across the back of the hand and along each finger. The shading is smooth and detailed, with copper and rust-red highlights on the metal parts and dark grey and black areas that give the impression of depth. The hand fills the frame against a blurred, pale background, with a person's arm visible at the right edge.

Realism Hand Biomechanical Mechanical Metal Rivet Pipe Hand Eye

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lift at Harrow Point had been dead since Tuesday, and three contractors had told the residents's committee that the governor was beyond saving. Maud Okonedo climbed the forty-one flights anyway, a torch clamped in her teeth and a roll of copper tape in her coat pocket, because her grandfather had built that governor by hand in 1971 and nobody else on the estate had ever understood how it breathed.

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The machine room smelled of hot dust and oil. The drive housing sat in the middle of the floor like a beetle someone had armoured. Rivets ran along its seams in neat rows, pipes curled out of it and into the wall, and the brass wheel inside was bolted under a skin of riveted plates that had gone the colour of rust where the damp had got in. On the inside of the cover, in pencil, her grandfather had written: let the metal take the strain, not the wire. She had always thought it was a joke.

It took her until three in the morning. A pawl had seized on the third tooth, and once she freed it with a file and a drop of oil from the tin in her bag, the wheel turned with a long, satisfied groan that she felt through her knuckles. Somewhere below, the cabin shuddered, then began to fall smoothly through the shaft, its cables humming like plucked wire.

She waited until the bell chimed on the ground floor. Then she took the pencil from behind her ear and wrote beneath his words, in her own careful hand: it held.