Realistic tattoo of a stand mixer with a polished steel bowl on the upper arm, shown in grey tones with red and orange reflections.

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Stand mixer on upper arm

Realism · Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo depicts a kitchen stand mixer, with its head at the top and a large polished steel bowl in the centre, set on a black base. The shading is smooth and realistic, with strong highlights and reflections on the metal. Mostly grey and black tones are used, with warm red and orange reflections in the bowl that add colour.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The mixer began walking across the galley floor a little after three, which is how I knew we were in proper weather. Mags had talked the purser into buying it in Hull, a squat steel-headed thing that looked like it belonged in a bakery on dry land, and it had never once behaved on the ship. Now it crept toward the stove on its rubber feet while the dough sulked under a tea towel. I put my hip against the black base and held it still, one hand on the cold enamel, while the lamp over the hatch swung back and forth like a hanged man's lantern.

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The bowl was the only thing aboard I polished every morning. Chrome holds a picture better than any mirror a cook can afford, and in it the whole galley folded itself up: the red guard lamp, the rack of ladles bowed out like ribs, my own face stretched into a long grey spoon. Mags had told me once that bread rises best when you stop watching it. So I watched the bowl instead, and the bowl showed me Ewan coming down the companionway soaked to the skin, holding the rail with both hands, before he had turned his head to see me.

He didn't say anything. He just nodded at the bread, and I nodded back, and we both knew the pumps had been running since midnight and the men would want something hot and something to hold. I pushed the mixer back into its corner, lifted the towel, and found the dough had risen into a smooth pale dome in the middle of that bright steel, curved and gleaming like the moon through cloud.

We baked forty loaves before the light came through the porthole. When it did, it filled the chrome with orange and red, and for a minute the whole bowl looked like it was on fire and holding something good.