Colour tattoo of a knife, fork, spatula and whisk drawn in loose black sketch lines with blue, orange, green and purple watercolour splashes, on skin.

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Kitchen utensils with watercolour splashes

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The tattoo shows four kitchen utensils arranged diagonally: a knife, a fork, a spatula and a whisk. The utensils are drawn with loose, sketchy black linework, with extra hatching lines around their edges. Blue, orange, yellow, green and purple washes fill the shapes and spread into splashes around them, giving a watercolour effect.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The night the lights failed on Ward Six, the knife was the first to speak. Nobody in the kitchen at Hallam Cross had cooked a proper breakfast since old Mrs Pryce retired, and the new night porter, a lad called Tomas, could not tell a fish slice from a fork. So the utensils, who had worked that kitchen longer than any of the staff, gathered in the dark drawer beneath the hotplate to decide what was to be done.

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The fork said they must go up to the ward and feed the sick ones what they could keep down. The spatula said it had always been the proudest of the three and would not be carried in a pocket like a spoon. The whisk said nothing at first, having beaten eggs for forty years and being tired of talking. In the end they agreed, and the knife led them out.

They went up the service lift in the dark, knocking against the paint trolley the art volunteers had left by the lift doors. The pots toppled as they passed. The knife took the blue, the fork the orange, the spatula the green, and the whisk, last of all, the purple, which it swirled about itself until its wires shone. By four in the morning every bed on Ward Six had a tray with toast on it, cut into soldiers, and the patients said the toast had been buttered by a very careful hand.

Tomas never did learn to cook. In the morning he found the drawer shut and the floor tiles splashed in colours nobody could name, and he left them there for the day staff to ask about. The whisk, they say, still hangs with a little purple on its wires, and nobody has ever washed it clean.