Fine line black geometric tattoo of nested triangles and cubes sitting centrally on the chest, with a hand resting below it.

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Geometric triangle and cube linework on chest

Geometric · Chest · Black and grey · Photo

A fine line tattoo of overlapping triangles and cube-like wireframe shapes sits centrally on the chest, enclosed within a large upright triangle. Many lines are thin solid strokes, while the outer edges are drawn with dotted lines. The ink is black and the design is shown against dark clothing and pale skin, with a hand resting just below it.

Geometric Fine line Chest Geometric shape Triangle Cube Dotted line Linework

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The drawing office at Carreg Colliery smells of ammonia and cold tea, and Mr Pryce has given you the job nobody else wanted: fair-copying the old plan of the Number Four seam before the inspectors arrive on Thursday. He hands you a hard pencil and a ruler with a split along one edge. 'Solid where we've walked it,' he says, tapping the sheet. 'Dotted where we only think we have.'

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You work through Friday night with the lamp turned low. The working faces fan out from the shaft like the ribs of a folded fan, and each one you rule becomes a small pyramid of lines, a cube drawn in projection so that its far corner sits inside its near one. The tally books fill the margins with chainage, dip and the number of props lost to water. Where the figures run out, you draw the dots, rows of tiny pricks that promise passages nobody has yet walked.

By Sunday the sheet has grown a shape you never planned, a tall triangle standing over the whole workings, its two sides dotted because the old surveyor died before he could close the traverse. Pryce studies it for a long time. Then he slides the good drawing pen across the desk and tells you to ink the outer edges in solid, so the men can read them without squinting.

You hold the pen above the paper and cannot make yourself do it. Instead you move the dots a fraction closer together, so that from a distance the line looks almost whole, and you leave the rest for whoever gets to walk it first.