Black and grey star and geometric tattoo on one forearm and a shaded religious portrait on the other, with a diamond-set watch on the wrist.

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Star and portrait tattoos on forearms

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A man in a dark double-breasted suit with white shirt cuffs is shown from the waist down, with both forearms visible. One forearm carries a black and grey outline of a star with geometric shapes and shading, while the other has a shaded portrait-style figure surrounded by clouds. The image is monochrome with soft lighting against a plain background.

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The dance hall on Coronation Road smelt of floor wax and Brylcreem, and the band had been playing the same waltz since eight. You had a pot of gold size in one hand and a fine brush in the other, balanced on the scaffold above the bandstand, painting a star the width of a dinner plate onto the ceiling panel. Mr Pardoe had said it would hang over the dancers like a promise. He had not mentioned that he would spend the evening watching from the cloakroom door, turning his hat round and round in his hands.

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The panel beside yours was the difficult one. Ada Fenn, who ran the ticket table, had asked for a saint in it, someone to look down on the Friday crowd the way her late husband used to. You copied her from a holy card: a woman with her head bowed and a veil the colour of pewter. Above her you laid in clouds, soft and heaped, and in the star's lower point you set a small diamond shape that caught the lamps whenever the trumpet hit its high note. Each time it did, the scaffold shivered and a flake of gold leaf lifted at one corner.

On the last night before the hall was sold, you climbed up to check the varnish and found Ada below, dancing slowly with a man who had come up from Bristol to fix the boiler. She glanced up, saw you watching, and pointed at the saint with her chin as if to say that one was hers now.

In the spring the new owners painted over everything in the hall except the star. They said it was the only thing up there that still caught the light the right way.

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