Black and grey geometric tattoo of nested triangles inside a faint circle, placed on a forearm.

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Nested triangles tattoo on a forearm

Geometric · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows several triangles of different sizes, some nested inside others and some pointing down, arranged around a small central triangle within a faint outlined circle. The linework is fine and precise, with some edges built from stippled dots and others from solid thin lines. The design is entirely black ink on pale skin, set against a blurred grey background with a dark sleeve on the left.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mags had drawn the same figure on the back of the ledger for eleven winters, and still the lock keeper at Hartwell Cut could not make the sums come out. Three triangles, she told him, pointing down the towpath, each one fitting inside the next like a stack of enamel bowls, and a small one at the middle that the water could never reach.

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Her father had taught her the trick of it on a slate: put a point in the middle, draw a circle around it, and where the circle touched the ground, drop the line. Dot the edges where the river had got into the pencil. He said a triangle that pointed down was a barge waiting for a load, and one that pointed up was a barge already empty. She had never believed him, but she had never stopped checking.

On the last night of the thaw the Gilded Heron came through the lock carrying a hold of roofing slate, and Oswin Pell counted the stones off the deck and came up one short. Mags went below with the lantern. The stone was wedged under the bunk where the shifting timber had pushed it, dark and flat, its edges softened by the damp.

She set it on the table beside the ledger and turned it until its corners matched the drawing. Then she wrote the figure in pencil, a small triangle pointing down, and shut the book on it.