Black and grey geometric tattoo on the forearm near the wrist, with a sunflower at the base and fine triangles and circles above it.

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Sunflower and geometric lines on a wrist

Geometric · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A sunflower with a stippled centre sits near the wrist, with fine-line triangles, circles and dotted guide lines rising up the forearm. The shading is built from dots and fine strokes in black ink with no colour, and the design is centred on the arm against a dark patterned fabric background.

Geometric Dotwork Forearm Sunflower Triangle Circle Line Dotted line Geometric shape

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomasz, the snow has sealed the Drover's Rest since Tuesday, and Mrs Pennock has run out of anything that isn't turnip. I have borrowed the landlord's protractor and pinned a sheet of his good paper to the taproom table, because if I cannot walk to the ridge I can at least draw it. Yesterday I took the sun's bearing through the window at noon, then again at three, and marked each with a dot where the light crossed the glass.

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The dots joined themselves into a line that runs straight through the old church spire and out past the mill. Mr Ashdown, who sleeps by the fire with his boots on, says a line like that is only a line until someone stands on it. I told him the sunflowers in my mother's yard did the same thing every August, turning their heads to follow a sun they never quite reached, and he laughed and asked whether I had been reading the almanac again.

This morning the clouds tore open for a quarter hour and I went out to the lych gate to check my bearing against the real ridge. The circle I drew for the sun was exactly the width of a cartwheel, and the triangle at its foot pointed at the inn door, which is where I am writing this from. I have decided the thaw will come when I stop watching for it. Come and find me when the road is clear, and bring the good compass, the one with the brass hinge.