Black dotwork and fine line geometric tattoo of overlapping circles, triangles and a vertical line on the inner forearm.

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Geometric circles and triangles on a forearm

Geometric · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A vertical arrangement of overlapping circles, triangles and fine straight lines runs down the forearm, with small dots scattered along the linework. The shapes are drawn in thin black lines and stippled shading, with some triangles filled in by dense dots to create tonal depth. The tattoo is shown in black ink only, photographed straight on against a blurred pale background.

Geometric Dotwork Fine line Forearm Circle Triangle Line Dot Geometric shape Arrow

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Hester Vane had measured the Gallow Pass four times before the mist agreed with her figures. Each morning she set the brass theodolite on the same flat stone, levelled it until the bubble sat dead centre, and sighted the three cairns that marked the corners of her triangle. The circles came later, in the evening, when the lamp was lit and the instrument had gone cold. She drew them freehand with her father's old compass, one inside another, until the paper looked like the inside of a bell.

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On the fifth day the summit cairn was gone. In its place stood a wooden post, newly cut, with a small iron arrowhead nailed to the top and pointing east. Nobody in Ardcrask had put it there, and the carter swore the road had been empty at dawn. Hester took her bearings from the arrow, then from the lower cairn, then from the faint glint of the church spire far below, and every line she drew crossed the others at exactly the same point, a little above the valley floor where no path went.

She walked there at noon with a sack of bread and her notebook. The ground dropped into a shallow bowl of heather, and in the middle lay a flat disc of grey slate, thin as a plate, scored with the same circles and triangles she had drawn all week. Beneath it, pressed into the soil, was a brass rule marked in units she did not recognise. She laid her compass on the slate. The needle spun once, then settled, pointing straight back at her boots.

She sat down in the heather and laughed until the sheep wandered off. Then she took a clean sheet and began again, not measuring the pass this time but the distance from her own door to the stone. It came to exactly one radius of the circle she had drawn that morning, and she understood she had been standing at the centre of her own drawing the whole time.