Fine line black constellation tattoo of small stars joined by dotted lines, on the top of a foot near the ankle.

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Star constellation tattoo on a foot

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A bare foot with red painted toenails rests on a pale surface, showing a small constellation of black stars linked by dotted lines. The stars are rendered as tiny filled points and the connecting lines are fine dots, with the arrangement running diagonally down the side of the foot towards the ankle. The ink is solid black against soft, warmly lit skin, and the composition is tightly framed on the foot.

Fine line Dotwork Ankle Constellation Star Dot Foot

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The wire at Parrish's Travelling Big Top hung eleven feet above sawdust nobody swept any more, and I had walked it every night for thirty-one years without once looking down. Tonight the canvas had a tear above the centre pole the size of a dinner plate, and through it the sky was doing what it did in October, cold and very clear. Mr Parrish had sold the lamps to a scrapyard in Hull on Tuesday. Nobody had told the stars.

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Dolly, who had the performing goats until the goats were sold, drew the constellation in biro on the side of my foot the winter the big tent last filled. She said the seven points were the only things the rain had not got to. In spring a tattooist in Bristol with reading glasses pushed in the stars as solid black points and joined them with dots so fine I had to walk toward a window to see them. Dolly said the dots were for the gaps, the places a person has to cross on trust.

That last night I stepped onto the wire with the rigging groaning and the hole overhead letting in a thin blue light. I did not look down. I counted the dots the way I had counted steps as a girl, one and two and three, the faint line bending from the top star toward the ankle, and I trusted each one because it was there. The audience was three people and a dog in the back row, and none of them breathed.

At the far platform I stepped off onto the sawdust, the flap lifting in the wind. Mr Parrish stood holding the gate open with his hat in his hand. I looked down at the ink in the lamplight, seven stars and their broken road, and the road ran straight out through the gap in the canvas, as if someone had drawn the way home and forgotten to tell the rest of us.