Black geometric tattoo of six curved commas radiating from a central dot on the side of an upper thigh.

Radial comma design on the upper thigh

Geometric · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows six solid black comma shapes arranged in a rotating pattern around a small central dot. The edges are crisp and the ink is an even, dense black with no shading. The design sits on a tanned thigh photographed at an angle against a bed and a teal cover, with a patterned crocheted top and denim shorts partly visible.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The rain has been coming sideways across the market since seven, and you have been pretending the leaking awning over your trestle is not your problem. Your uncle's letterpress tray sits under a tarpaulin, forty years of lead type sorted by hand, and the box marked PUNCTUATION has rusted at one corner. Nobody buys type on a wet Thursday. Nobody buys anything but chips and phone cases.

Keep reading

Then a man in a yellow cagoule lifts the lid and tips it, and six commas slide out onto the wood, tails curled the same way, as if they had been turning in a slow circle in the dark and had only just noticed the air. He asks what they cost. You say a pound each, and he laughs and says they look like they want to be somewhere else. You set a dot in the middle of the table because there is nowhere better to put it, and the commas settle around it like a wheel that has forgotten its road.

Your uncle always said a comma is a breath, not a stop. That is why they could never leave a sentence without a pause, and why they kept turning back. You watch the man read the faded label, rain drumming on the awning, and the commas lean toward him, into the gap where he might have said something. He buys all six for a pound and the dot for nothing, then walks off between the stalls with the wet grey shapes in his coat pocket.

By closing you have a tin of coins and one full stop nobody wants. You sweep the water off the boards, slide the tray back into its box, and find the empty space in the PUNCTUATION compartment still turning, just slightly, as the rain eases off.

More like this

Black ink tattoo of five semicolon-like marks arranged around a central dot on the outer thigh, in a simple geometric style.
Ring of semicolons on a thigh
Solid black geometric tattoo of five semicolons arranged in a ring around a central dot, on the inner wrist of a forearm.
Five semicolons in a ring on a wrist
Small solid black paw print tattoo with four toe pads and a main pad on the ankle of a foot, in a close-up photo.
Small black paw print on ankle
Black fine line infinity symbol tattoo with a paw print and the word love in script on the inner wrist.
Infinity paw print with love script on wrist
Fine line black tattoo of an infinity symbol with the word love and a paw print, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Infinity loop with paw print on wrist
Solid black blackwork tattoo of a paw print with a wolf head in silhouette inside the main pad, on the lower leg.
Wolf head within a paw print on a lower leg
Small solid black paw print tattoo with a heart cut out of the central pad, on the inner wrist of a light-skinned hand.
Paw print with heart on a wrist
Solid black semicolon tattoo with cat ears on the dot, on the lower forearm, with a black and grey face and swirling hair tattoo above it.
Cat semicolon on the forearm
Black fine line tattoo of paw prints with curling swirls and small dots across the top of a foot, with a denim jeans cuff above it.
Paw prints and swirls on a foot
Fine line black tattoo of an infinity symbol with two paw prints and a small heart on the inner wrist.
Infinity symbol with paw prints and heart on wrist
Black fine line tattoo of a paw print above an infinity symbol with the word love written in script, on the inner wrist.
Infinity and paw print wrist tattoo
Close-up photograph of a small solid black semicolon tattoo on the inner wrist, with pale skin around it.
Solid black semicolon on a wrist

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.