Three matching black swirl symbol tattoos on the tops of three feet, stacked one above another.

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Three matching swirl symbol tattoos on feet

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Three feet are shown one above another, each with a black tattoo of the same symbol: a central form with curling spiral ends. The linework is bold and solid, with smooth curves and no shading. The image is in natural colour, and the tattoos are the only ink, so the result is black on skin tone with a plain background of skin.

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Mr Ellery taught the Thursday class at the Palais on Wenlock Road, and he never once counted out loud. He tapped a stick on the sprung boards instead, and every step had to land on the tap. The Hollis sisters arrived in October, three of them in borrowed shoes, and the eldest asked whether there was a step that feet could dance together when they did not agree on anything.

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He drew it for them in chalk on the back stage door: a central knot with two curls unwinding from its sides, like a fern not yet ready to open. "Turn on the curl, not the knot," he said. "The knot holds you still. The curl takes you round." They practised until the boards were grey with dust and their heels blistered, and Dora, the caretaker, swept the chalk away each night and grumbled that the hall would end up looking like a schoolroom.

In March the middle sister left for Leeds with a ticket and a suitcase, and the other two danced the step without her, leaving a gap on the floor where she had been. Ellery stood by the piano and tapped one beat too slow, leaving a space in the rhythm exactly the width of a missing dancer. Nobody mentioned it. The step kept its shape anyway.

On the last night of the season the three of them came back for one more turn, the Leeds sister having caught the late train with mud on her coat. Dora left the chalk lines unswept. When the music stopped, the spirals were still on the floor, three of them in a row, pale and slightly crooked, and nobody was in any hurry to walk on them.

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