Black line drawing of a geometric lattice design inside a tall shape with pointed top and bottom, on a white background.

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Geometric lattice design with diamonds

Geometric · Black and grey · Flash

A black line drawing on a white background shows a tall, pointed-ended outline filled with a lattice of straight vertical and diagonal lines. The lines form interlocking diamonds and triangles, with a single vertical line running down the centre. The linework is uniform in weight with no shading, and the composition is symmetrical and centred.

Geometric Lattice Diamond Triangle Line Geometric pattern

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nell, the screen is finished, though Mr Pryce insists it will not hang true until the hinges have settled, and I have given up arguing with a man who measures in fractions of a hair. You asked what the thing is for. It is for the shelter at Marrow Bay, where the wind comes off the estuary hard enough to lift a hat clean off a head. Pryce wanted something to break the gusts without shutting out the light, so we built it as a single panel: two pointed leaves of pine, a spine down the middle, and the lattice between.

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The lattice was the hard part. Every diagonal has to meet its neighbour at exactly the same height or the diamonds go lopsided, and they have to be lopsided on purpose, because the eye cannot rest on a flat grid for long. I cut forty-two battens for each half, numbered them in pencil on the underside, and laid them out on the shed floor like a sum that refused to add up. On the third night I dreamt the joints were gossiping in the voice of the postmistress.

Yesterday the last pin went in and the whole thing stood up on its own for the first time, two triangles pointing at the sky with the central line running straight through. The light came through the gaps and lay on the floorboards in diamonds that shifted every time the door opened. Pryce stood in the shadow of it a long while and said nothing. Then he asked if I wanted my initials cut into the spine, and I said no, the joints are the work.

Come in June. Bring your boots, the varnish is still tacky at the foot of it, and you will want to walk through the light.