Black and grey realism tattoo of a mountain range with shaded peaks and a soft ground line, across the inside of a forearm.

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Mountain range tattoo on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A black and grey tattoo of a mountain range runs horizontally across the forearm, with a ridge of peaks, lighter snow-like highlights and darker shaded slopes. The linework is fine and the shading is soft and graduated, giving the mountains volume and depth. The background is a blurred red fabric on the left and a pale, out-of-focus scene on the right, which keeps attention on the tattoo.

Realism Forearm Mountain Mountain range Peak Landscape

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dessie dropped her end of the canvas in the sawdust and swore at it, which was the first thing anyone had said that morning that sounded like the old days. We were folding the mountains. Forty feet of them, ridge over ridge, the snow painted in lifted white where the spotlights used to catch it, the shadowed slopes gone the colour of wet slate. I had done the peaks myself the spring I turned nineteen, up a stepladder in the big top with a tin of grey and a brush borrowed from my mother's sewing box, and old Harry Dunn said I had made them look like somewhere a man could walk to and never come back from. He meant it kindly.

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The Halloway and Dunn Travelling Show had not really moved in three years. We drove from one car park to the next, the lions went to a sanctuary in Kent, and the trapeze was sold for scrap to a school in Leeds. What was left was the tent, the lorries, the painted backdrop and the people who would not leave it. The mountains stayed. They never needed feeding, and nobody could claim they had gone lame.

When the last fold went into the back of the van, I found my initials in the corner where the snow met the sky, small and crooked, the paint gone pale with age. I stood there with the tarpaulin over my shoulder until Dessie asked if I was going to help or write poetry. I did not answer her. I pulled the canvas back out, unrolled one corner across the bonnet, and walked to the hedge at the edge of the field where the real hills began, grey and unpainted. I held the corner up against them until the light changed. Then I rolled it up again, my initials facing in, and let the real hills get on with being wider than anything I could paint.