Black and grey realism tattoo of a detailed eye with long lashes on an upper arm, with a figure tattoo to its left.

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Realistic eye tattoo on an arm

Realism · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A large realistic eye fills the centre of the frame, with fine lashes, a reflective iris and a shaded upper lid. A partial figure, possibly a classical statue, sits along the lower left of the arm, with more shading and dark areas below the eye. The image uses smooth black and grey tones with strong contrast against a plain light background.

Realism Upper arm Eye Eyelashes Iris Figure Statue

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, the lot of you, and mind the pan, because this one is long and the soup won't wait for anybody. You want to know why the Marguerite never sailed without her statue. I'll tell you. She was a stone woman, half her body still wrapped in marble drapery, one arm raised as if to hail a ship that had already gone past. Old Sinclair bought her off a demolished customs house in Genoa for the price of two barrels of salt pork, and he had her lashed upright by the foremast before the ink was dry on the manifest.

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Her eyes were the trouble. Sinclair had the sculptor cut them hollow, and then he set in two discs of black glass he'd ground himself in the back of a chandler's shop. Nobody liked to look at her after dark. On the third night out from Malta the lamp in the galley went out in a gust and the sea went flat as a plate, and I swear the moon was caught in her left eye like a coin in a well.

Then the ship's boy, Tomasz, a lad who could not hold a tune, began singing to her every watch, and she quit leaning. She stood straighter. The mast stopped creaking when he sang. Sinclair said it was the ballast settling, and the cook said it was the boy, and the boy said nothing at all, which is how you know he was right.

We made Gibraltar with every man aboard. The statue went to a museum there, the glass eyes went into the sea, and I have never once looked at a reflection in still water without wondering what she saw. Now pass me the ladle, and mind the carrots, they're the last of the good ones.