Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a curling wave inside an inverted triangle on the outer thigh, shown beside black shorts.

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Wave inside an inverted triangle on a thigh

Dotwork · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A black and grey tattoo of a large curling wave sits inside an inverted triangle on the outer thigh of a person wearing black shorts and a white top. The wave is built from fine stippled dots and short hatched lines, with darker shading in the trough and light areas left in the crest and spray. The image is shot against a plain dark grey backdrop, with the tattoo centred and sharply focused.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Ruth Calder counted the takings on an upturned drum behind the ticket wagon while the tide crept over the shingle. Eleven people had paid for the Thursday matinee, and two of them were the lighthouse keeper's children, who had only come to see the elephant that had been sold in March.

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The poster was the trouble. Old Tobias Wren had painted it forty years ago, in the company's best summer: a cream canvas shaped like an inverted triangle, with a wave curling inside it, built from thousands of tiny ink dots so the sea seemed to breathe. Above the lion, above the trapeze, the wave had always been the star. Ruth had lost the lion to a dealer in Bristol, sold the rigging for scrap, and now the wave was the only thing left that still arrived on time.

Tobias came down the wagon steps with his dip pen tucked behind one ear and sat beside her on the drum. He looked at the grey water for a long while. "It wants a new face," he said, "or it wants us to leave it be." She asked him what he meant, and he pointed at the surf, which had been eating the car park wall since the spring gales.

That night they struck the tent in the rain, folding the great canvas around the poles, and left the sign standing on its trestle. By morning the tide had taken the far end of the shingle, but the painted wave still curled over the empty pitch, its dots beaded with wet and its spray a pale scatter where the real sea had not yet reached. Ruth took it down, rolled it under her arm, and walked up the hill without looking back.