Angular fine line tattoo of an anatomical heart in red and blue outlines with a black horizontal line, on the forearm.

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Geometric anatomical heart on a forearm

Geometric · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo shows an angular, anatomical heart drawn with offset red and blue outlines that create a doubled, shifted effect. A single black horizontal line cuts across the middle of the heart. The tattoo sits on the forearm against a pale wall and dark background, with the image cropped closely around the design.

Geometric Fine line Forearm Heart Anatomical heart Line Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mags Tollery had two eyes that did not agree, and the whole of Harrow Fen knew it. She could see the far side of the drain before anyone else saw the ice on it, but she could never tell which of two cups on a table was nearer. So when the travelling man came through with his brass viewer and his box of glass slides, she sat at the back of the Corn Exchange with her hands under her knees and waited for him to say it was a curse.

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He did not. He held a slide to the lamp, and the slide was a heart drawn twice, once in red and once in blue, the two lines a finger's width apart. "Put the blue lens on your left eye," he said, "and the red on your right, and it stands up out of the card." She did, and it did. The heart rose off the paper like something lifted out of water. Mags wept, which the men at the back thought foolish, and she paid him a shilling for the slide and carried it home inside her coat.

Every winter after that she drew hearts. She drew them from the carcasses the doctor brought up from the cold house, pinned flat with tacks, and she drew each one twice, the second line shifted a hair to the left, so that a person looking through the glasses would see the muscle thicken and turn. She ruled one straight black line across the middle of each, because the doctor told her a heart had a waterline too, the place where the blood sat still between beats. Nobody in the fen ever asked her what it meant. The doctor paid her in tea.

When she died the drawings went into the reading room at the Corn Exchange, in a tin with no lid. Children still take them out and hold the glasses up to the lamp, and they say the heart comes up out of the paper. Then they ask what the black line is for, and nobody has a better answer than the one Mags gave, which was that you need somewhere still to measure from.