Black and grey realism tattoo of an elephant head with its trunk extended, on the forearm of a person wearing a grey top.

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Elephant tattoo on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A black and grey tattoo of an elephant's head and extended trunk sits on the outer forearm, just below the elbow. The linework and shading suggest fur, skin folds and the curve of the trunk, with lighter areas left open on the ear and head. The shot is shallow in depth of field, with the grey sleeve and a blurred green background framing the arm.

Realism Forearm Elephant Trunk Animal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The generator coughed its last at half past two, and by then you had already talked yourself into selling the ride. Dusk settled over the showfield outside Boston, the dodgems ticking as their metal cooled, and Marjorie still stood at the gate of her pen with her great grey head lowered, trunk sweeping the trampled grass for anything the crowds had dropped. Nobody had paid to see her since the Hull fair in ninety-six. The council wanted the field back by Monday.

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You carried a bucket of windfall apples down from the hedge, and she heard the rattle before you reached the rail. Her trunk found your coat pocket first, lifted out the stub of a ticket you had forgotten was there, and turned it over with a patience you had not shown yourself all week. Then she took an apple. Then she took another. You stood there with the bucket against your hip until the light from the last bulb on the big wheel made a slow circle of gold on her forehead.

The steam organ sat under its tarpaulin twenty yards off, its brass pipes dull with rain. You pulled the cover free and cranked the handle once, twice, and the first wheezing bar of a waltz went out across the empty field. Marjorie raised her trunk straight as a drainpipe, held it there, and let out a long low note that matched the tune almost exactly. You kept turning the handle. By Monday the ground would be ploughed, and nobody would know that the only thing the fair ever really sold you was the chance to stand this close to something so old and so patient.