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Two facing profiles in fine line

Fine line · Back · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows two abstract profile outlines facing each other, drawn with thin, continuous black linework. The lines vary slightly in weight and taper at the ends. The ink is black on warm brown skin, with a white garment visible at the bottom edge of the frame.

Fine line Back Profile Line art Abstract

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Brother Anselm had been told to copy the psalter in a clean hand and nothing else, so when the abbot's cough came up the stairs he slid the spare sheet under his sleeve and kept his eyes on the vellum. The ink was iron gall and it dried fast in the cold of the scriptorium. He had only meant to test the nib on the margin.

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But the line came out of the pen the way a thought comes, quickly and without asking. A snout, a brow, the curl of an ear. He drew a second profile opposite, leaning in, and it was the face of Brother Osric, who had come from the cloister at Wenlock with a cough of his own and had not once looked up from his lectern in three winters. Anselm had never known what Osric thought about. Now the two faces regarded one another across a gap no wider than a fingernail, and neither mouth quite touched the other.

He meant to scrape it away with the pumice in the morning. Instead he sat through vespers with the sheet folded in his habit, and in the refectory he found Osric's hand resting on the bench beside his own, close enough that he could have turned his palm over and let it fall into place. He did not. Neither did Osric. They ate their bread in silence, and it was the most he had been spoken to in a year.