Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an eye inside a triangle with knotted corners, on the outer thigh.

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Eye in a triangle on a thigh

Dotwork · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A detailed eye sits inside a triangle whose frame is drawn with heavy, shaded outlines and knotted ends at the three corners. The eye has a dark pupil, a bright highlight and layered shading, with the surrounding triangle filled with fine stippled dots that give a gradient. The tattoo is centred on a close crop of pale skin with light body hair, and the image is in black and grey only.

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The lost property cupboard at Haddon Junction held three hundred and twelve umbrellas, a tuba case and a brass plate that nobody had come for in eleven years. Margaret Pell logged it as a signalman's fitting, which was almost true. It was a triangle with an eye set in its middle, the lids worked in fine dots so the metal darkened towards the frame, and at each corner someone had tied a knot of cord that had long since gone green.

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Ray Oddie, who had worked the old box until the cabins were pulled out, took one look at it and went quiet. The plate had hung above the points, he said, where the night signalman could see it from his chair. Nobody ever told him what it was for. Men just said it kept the line honest. On the last Friday before the resignalling, Margaret carried it up the iron stairs and found the hook still screwed into the wall, worn bright where a hundred hands had brushed past it.

She hung it back at twenty to midnight. The 23:40 came through slow, its lamp swinging as the driver leaned out to look, and then the cab light flicked twice, a greeting or a question. Margaret lifted her own lamp to the glass. The eye caught the beam and held it, and for once every point on the line was already set true.

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