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Geometric eye and profile tattoo on upper arm

Fine line · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A small black tattoo shows two angular, triangular shapes overlapping at an angle. The upper shape holds a detailed open eye, and the lower shape carries a simple profile with a nose and lips drawn in thin outline. The linework is clean and unshaded, set against pale skin and a knitted textile in a black and white photograph.

Fine line Geometric Upper arm Eye Face Profile Triangle Geometric shape

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You sit on the bench at platform four with the sketchbook balanced on your knee and the 7.42 twelve minutes late. Your pencil has worn to a blunt triangle, so you keep turning it between your fingers, hunting for a sharper edge that isn't there. Ruth from the buffet says you have been drawing the same woman all week, and she is right, though you would never admit it to Ruth.

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The woman in the grey coat takes the seat under the departures board every morning. She never reads the boards. She watches the trains pull out as if she is counting something. You draw her in profile, the line of her nose coming down like the folded edge of a paper boat, the lips pressed into a shape that could be patience or could be a secret. Each morning you add a little more shadow under her jaw, then rub it out before she can catch you at it.

On Thursday the bench is empty. The board says the 7.42 is cancelled, and the platform thins out into strangers with suitcases and nowhere to be. At the lost property office, the clerk slides a brown envelope across the counter with your name on it in careful capitals. Inside is a single sheet torn from a pad of tracing paper. Someone has drawn you from the side, sitting on the bench with the sketchbook open on your knee, and above your head, in a neat fine line, is a single open eye, drawn with the same patience you give everything you look at.