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Palm tree with geometric circles on a forearm
Botanical · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo
A single palm tree with a shaded canopy and a slender trunk sits at the centre of the design. Fine linework forms a large circle behind the tree, with arcs, dotted lines and a smaller circle at the base. The ink is black and grey, with soft shading in the fronds and a plain background of skin and a dark surface.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Hester Vane had drawn the coast of Tenerife three times before the chart office in Bristol would accept a line that crossed the trade winds without apology. Her dividers were brass, worn bright at the hinge, and she kept them in a tin that once held peppermints. On the third Tuesday of January the clerk, Mr Pargeter, set his cup down on her drawing board and told her the company wanted the palm island done in ink, not pencil, for the frame in the boardroom.
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She did not argue. She took her pen to the paper and began with the circle, the one a navigator draws to hold a bearing steady while the sea does what it likes. Inside it she ruled a fine arc, then dotted the course out to the edge where the compass rose would sit. The palm went in last, a single tree leaning on nothing, its fronds shaded with the side of the nib so they looked caught mid-wind.
Pargeter came back at four with the boardroom key in his waistcoat pocket and asked why the trunk was so thin. Hester told him that a palm is all trunk and no argument, and that the small circle at its foot marked the spring, not the coast. He frowned at the dotted line running off the sheet. "Where does that go?" "Home, if you follow it far enough," she said, and she capped the ink.
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