Black ink dotwork drawing of two inverted and upright triangles, each filled with mountain peaks above a pine forest, shown on a plain grey background.

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Two mountain and pine forest triangles

Dotwork · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows two triangular panels side by side. The left triangle has stippled mountain peaks rising above a band of pine trees, drawn with fine dots and outlines. The right triangle is inverted, with a solid black sky above layered mountain ridges and a dense row of pine trees at the base. The artwork is black ink on pale grey paper, with a clean, centred composition.

Dotwork Geometric Mountain Pine tree Forest Triangle Peak Landscape

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody in Harrow Wood would lend Edda Marl a spade that spring, because she had told the reeve she meant to dig up the sky. The reeve laughed and sent her to the cooper, who laughed too, so she took the crooked spade her uncle had left under the hay and went up the path alone with a loaf in her apron.

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Above the village the pines came down in ranks like soldiers who had lost their officers, and past them stood the two peaks everyone called the Sisters. The left one kept its face in daylight, pitted and grey as a gull's egg, with the trees marching up to its skirts. The right one stood on its point with its back to the sun, and each evening its shadow fell across the valley, so its dark ridge looked like a hole cut in the sky. Edda had decided the hole was where the light had gone.

She dug for three days at the root of the right-hand Sister, where the firs grew thickest and the ground smelled of wet bark. On the fourth morning the spade struck something that rang like a bell, and out came a flat black stone, cold as a well, with a triangle scratched across it. When she turned it over, the low sun caught the other face, and she saw the lit mountain standing in it, pines and all, upside down.

She carried the stone down and set it on the chapel sill, and by harvest the village said the Sisters had swapped their shadows. Edda knew only that the sky over Harrow Wood had never looked so wide, and that when she climbed the far slope to check, its pines stood very still, as though waiting for someone to set them the right way up.