Black and grey realism tattoo of a lighthouse with sunburst rays and crashing waves on the forearm.

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Lighthouse and waves on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A lighthouse stands on a rocky shore beneath a sunburst of radiating light rays, with swirling smoke or cloud forms above and a curling wave at the bottom. The linework is fine and the shading is smooth, with soft grey gradients giving depth to the tower, the water and the sky. The design is entirely in black and grey ink and fills the forearm from wrist to elbow against a chequered bag background.

Realism Forearm Lighthouse Wave Sunburst Cloud Smoke Sea Rock Ocean

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You are halfway up the iron stairs at Carrick Point when the wind tears the door from your hand and slams it against the tower wall. Below, the sea is the colour of wet slate and throws itself at the rocks as if it has a grudge to settle. Your father's boots are still on the landing where he left them on Tuesday, when the cough got into his chest and refused to leave.

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Nobody in Hollin Bay expects a girl of seventeen to light the lamp, least of all the board's man who sends the telegram from Newcastle. But the Fenwick boat is out past the shoal with three men aboard, and the fog has come down thick as porridge since noon. You trim the wick, rub the glass with the heel of your hand, and wind the clockwork until the brass drum turns and the lens begins to cast its long spokes across the water.

The first sweep finds nothing but cloud. The second finds the spray and lights it silver. You count the rays the way your father taught you, one, two, eight, until the sky over the headland has a sunburst to it and the foam on the swells rises like smoke off a bonfire.

Near midnight a light answers from the south, low and wavering, then another. You sit on the cold step with your back against the lamp housing and wait. When the Fenwick's horn finally comes, thin and furious through the murk, you do not cry until the sun comes up over the rocks.