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Moustached man portrait and pentagram on upper arm

Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

A moustached man in a dark jacket is shown in a portrait, with a second profile overlapping his head. Below him sit a red sun disc, layered wavy lines, and a pentagram enclosed by small triangles and a circle. The work uses fine black linework and soft grey wash, with the red sun as the only strong colour, and the design fills the upper arm.

Upper arm Man Moustache Portrait Profile Sun Wave Pentagram Triangle

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

He paid for six dances before he gave me his name, and by then the Sunderlight's band had started its third waltz without us. He held me the way men did in those days, one hand flat between my shoulder blades, as if I might be blown off across the floor. Each time we turned, he seemed to look at me with one face and at something over my shoulder with the other.

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Over my shoulder was the backdrop the decorator had painted for the summer regatta: a grey sea and a red sun pushing up out of it in bands. Set into the boards beneath the bandstand was a brass star inside a ring, polished so bright that heels skidded across it. Mr Calloway, he said his name was, and he laughed when I asked where he lived, saying the tide was his landlord and it would be out by midnight.

When the lamps dimmed for the last waltz, the red bulb over the stage lit the painted sun so it seemed to hang at the height of his shoulder. He pulled me close and said he had one more thing to show me, then stopped mid-step, and I felt his hand go cold through my glove. The band played on. When the lights came up, the floor was empty except for me, and a little heap of brass filings lying on the star, and a damp moustache-shaped mark on my collar.