Traditional style tattoo on a thigh of an orange skateboard breaking out of a black and grey television with the words GO OUTSIDE, with a coloured figure tattoo below.

Skateboard bursting from a TV on a thigh

Traditional · Thigh · Mixed · Photo

A bold black outlined television with a cracked screen sits above the words GO OUTSIDE, and an orange skateboard bursts out through the screen with its wheels visible. Below, a coloured tattoo of a figure is partly visible, and a tattooed design runs down the outer thigh. The solid orange fill and flat black line work stand out against the pale skin, and the background is a blurred street with parked cars.

Traditional Thigh Figure Sun Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The set had been cracked since the winter Uncle Ray lobbed a dart at the snooker, and nobody in the flat on Hollis Road had got round to replacing it. Nessa kept it on for company. Every Saturday she sat cross-legged in front of the crack, watching a weatherman point at a sun that never came, and every Saturday her brother Tez stood in the doorway with his orange board tucked under one arm, saying the same thing.

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"Go outside, Ness. It's nearly May."

She didn't go. Not at first. The board had come from a jumble sale in Bexley for two pounds and a promise to sweep the church hall, and Tez had spent a month learning to kickflip it on the car park bins while she pretended not to care.

It was the Saturday the aerial finally died that she gave in. The picture went to snow, then to a single grey line, and she sat staring at the line until it dawned on her she could hear the gulls and the kids and the rattle of the bins outside, all of it louder than the telly had ever been. She got up, took the board from Tez without a word, and stepped through the open door into the street.

Behind her the box hummed on in the empty room, still hissing, and the crack in the glass caught the light from the window like a road going somewhere.