Two side-by-side photographs of thin black script lettering spelling Jesus on the inside of a wrist, rotated in each panel.

Jesus lettering on a wrist

Lettering · Other · Black and grey · Photo

The image shows two photographs of the same wrist, one from the back and one from the palm side, each with the word Jesus tattooed in thin black script. The linework is fine and even, with the letters rotated so the word appears upside down in both views. The skin is light and the ink is solid black, with a bright highlight across the wrist and a grey background.

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The lettering came out wrong on the first coat, and Ada Pryce stood on the gunwale of the Patience with a size-two brush and swore at the lock keeper's dog. Every stroke had gone on the right way round for her, but the word was meant for the towpath, and from the bank the chapel's name would stand on its head.

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Her father had taught her to paint for the other side. "Work for the eye that isn't yours," he'd said, turning a tin of Prussian blue over with his thumb. So she tipped the board on its trestle, pencilled the letters backwards in her head, and laid the thin black hairlines of the script again, letter by letter, until the J curled like a fishhook and the final S ran off the edge like a dropped ribbon. It took three days and most of a bottle of linseed.

On the Thursday, the vicar's wife came down the path with a flask and stopped under the willow. She read the board aloud, slowly, the way you read something you are not sure of, then looked at Ada on the boat and back again. "It's the wrong way up from here," she said. "I'd have sworn it was wrong from the water too."

Ada didn't answer. She rinsed the brush in the canal, watched the ink bloom and thin, and when the Patience pulled away from the lock she looked back once. In the flat brown water the board was doubled, and the word sat true in the reflection, the right way round at last.

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