Colour neo-traditional tattoo of Medusa with green skin and snake hair, a winged gold headpiece and arrows, on the upper arm.

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Medusa with arrows on an upper arm

Neo-trad · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A full-colour tattoo of Medusa, with green skin, snake hair and a gold winged headpiece, holding an arrow and wearing jewellery and a red drape. The bold black outlines, shading and jewel-toned details are clearly defined against the dark background. The figure fills the frame from the shoulder down the upper arm, with snakes and an arrow extending around the edges.

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Now sit down, you lot, and mind the lamp, because this is the one about Ada Brisk and the snake-haired lady on the Fenmouth fair wagon. Ada was the best sign painter between Lynn and the sea, and she did the fairground boards for Pelham's Travelling Marvels every summer she could get away from her husband's chandlery. Nobody in Fenmouth had seen a gorgon before, mind, only the photographs of them in the library, and Ada said that was the trouble with a town where nothing happens. It goes looking for trouble and takes whatever's left lying about.

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She painted that lady on a board twelve feet high, green as a bottle end, with a gold bird sat on her brow like a brooch somebody had sat on. Every snake had its own temper. Pelham paid her in half-crowns and a cold pie, and told her the figure would turn the gawpers to stone, which was the idea. But the gawpers wouldn't look at the board. They looked at the arrow. Lodged across her lap, the shaft had been fletched in real goose feather, and every evening, when the lamps came on, somebody had taken it out and put it back a little further along, as if she meant to go somewhere.

On the last night of the season Ada went down with the lantern and found the wagon open and the board turned to face the sea. The arrow was gone. In its place a single gold coin lay in the paint, pressed flat as if a thumb had done it. Ada never said who. She only said that a gorgon's gaze is a terrible thing, but a gorgon with a bit of patience is worse, and she went home and never painted another woman again.

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