Small fine line tattoo of the Eiffel Tower with a red heart, placed on the neck behind an ear.

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Eiffel Tower and heart behind the ear

Fine line · Neck · Mixed · Photo

A small tattoo of the Eiffel Tower sits on the skin behind an ear, with a tiny red heart to its upper right. The tower is drawn in dark, finely hatched linework with light shading, and the heart is filled in solid red. The close, slightly angled framing keeps the tattoo as the clear focus against the pale skin and dark hair.

Fine line Neck Eiffel tower Heart

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Marcel had drawn the tower on the backs of postcards for thirty-one years, and he could do it with his eyes shut, which was useful now that his eyes were going. Each morning he set his folding easel beside the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, uncapped a pen and started with the feet, always the feet, because if the base was wrong the whole thing leaned like a drunk. The lattice took him longest. He hatched it finer than hair, so that from a metre away the tower looked grey and from up close it looked like a net.

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In March a young woman stopped at his easel with rain dripping off her hood. She was from somewhere in the north of England, she said, and her older sister had told her that Paris was where a person went to be brave. Could he draw the tower with a heart beside it? Marcel told her the tower did not need a heart. She told him it did not need his opinion either. He drew it anyway, and when he came to the heart he pressed so hard the ink bled into the card, a small red bloom like wine on a tablecloth.

She came back every Thursday for a month, always for a different card, always to sit on the wall and talk about nothing. Then she stopped coming. In September a letter arrived at the kiosk with a Leeds postmark and one of his own cards tucked inside, the heart circled in blue biro. Underneath, in careful handwriting, she had written: I took your advice. It is exactly where nobody can see it unless I want them to.

Marcel read it twice, then pinned it above his tin of pens, beside the bleeding red heart, where it stayed until the paper went soft at the corners.