Fine line geometric triangle tattoo with dotwork shading and a blue and purple wash, placed on the upper shoulder near the collarbone.

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Fine line triangle with blue wash on shoulder

Fine line · Shoulder · Mixed · Photo

A fine black linework triangle with an open line running out to the right forms the main subject, set against bare skin on the upper shoulder and chest. The lower left of the triangle is filled with stippled dotwork, while the upper right area carries a soft blue and purple watercolour-style wash. The photograph is taken close up against a dark background, with the tattoo centred in the lower half of the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Okonedo's paper bags came in bundles of two hundred, and by four in the morning my hands had learned the fold Dilys wanted: a sharp crease from corner to corner, the twine left trailing out to one side so the bag could be lifted without tipping the rye. My first attempts looked like tents that had given up. Dilys unfolded them with one finger and sent them back to the pile without comment, which was worse than comment.

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The window over the proving racks was still black when I started on the dotwork. Dilys had shown me how flour settled on the sill overnight, pale and fine as frost, and how to press a brush of it onto the bags so the corners looked dusted rather than painted. I stippled the lower edge of each one until my wrist ached. Somewhere past five the black in the glass thinned to a bruised purple, then to a clean blue, the same blue as the ink Dilys used to mark the tins, and I gave up on the stipple and let the colour bleed into the top corner of the next bag.

The first customer came at ten past six, a man in a grey work coat who asked for a half loaf and then stood looking at the bags on the counter as if he had seen them somewhere before. I wrapped the loaf and reached for a bag, and my hand found the one I had finished last, the blue running up through its corner like weather. I folded the twine out to the right and handed it over.

He turned it once, looked at the trailing string, and said nothing about it. He tucked the loaf in and lifted the bag the way Dilys had taught me, without tipping a crumb. Outside the sky had gone the colour of the ink. Dilys was humming at the ovens. I set the next bag on the stack and started the crease again, corner to corner, before anyone else could come in.