Colourful geometric brain tattoo with bold black outlines and blue, green, yellow and pink watercolour-style shading on a person's upper limb.

Geometric brain with watercolour fill

Geometric · Other · Colour · Photo

A brain outline is drawn in heavy black lines and divided into irregular, faceted sections. Each section is filled with soft blue, green, yellow and pink shading that blends into lighter patches, giving a watercolour effect. The brain is centred on a close crop of skin with a dark vignette around the edges.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, the coffee's stewed but it's hot, and you'll want to hear this before the sun clears the ridge. Out past Tallow Bend, where the tarmac gives up and turns to corrugations, there is a salt pan called Mercy Flat. Nothing grows on it. The ground has split into plates, each one the size of a kitchen table, each one edged with a dark line where the mud pulled away from itself.

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Thirty years back a surveyor named Ida Quarles drove a Land Rover onto that pan with a drawing board bolted to the passenger seat. Her job was to map the cracks for the council, and she did it properly, plate by plate, in black ink. The council never paid her for the colours. She put them in anyway, every evening, from a tin of watercolours she bought in Port Hedley: blue for the storms that never reached them, green for the lone gum at the far fence, yellow for the dust, and pink for the sunsets she swore the flat invented just to spite her.

The sheets piled up in the back of the van until one March the rain came, the proper kind that fills a road ditch in an hour. Ida drove out to check her survey pegs and found the pan under two inches of water, and her drawings soaking in the back. She went out with a towel and found the plates had lifted through the water like stones, every edge exactly where she had inked it. The lake had taken her lines as a shape to fill.

The water stayed nine days, the colours bleeding out across the crust just as she had painted them, and the council never sent anyone to ask about the expenses. You can see it from the bend if the light is low. Don't ask me where the water went. It went where she drew it.