Black and grey realism tattoo of a winged classical statue of a woman with a braided hairstyle, shown on the upper arm.

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Winged classical statue on an upper arm

Realism · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A winged female figure, styled like a classical marble statue, is shown in soft greys with a turned head, bare shoulder and drapery across her body. Fine shading builds the skin, hair and feathered wings, and a second partial figure and wing run along the left edge of the arm. The design is in black ink and grey tones only, framed in a close, slightly angled shot against a blurred background.

Realism Upper arm Statue Angel Winged figure Wing Drapery

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The block came up from Crowbeck on the Tuesday lorry, and by Thursday Mr Aske had decided it was too good for the chapel and too good for anyone in Thornleigh to see before it was finished. He kept the shed door shut and the lamp burning past midnight, and I was the one who swept the dust from the floor and pretended not to listen when he talked to the stone.

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The commission was for a widow, Mrs Hale, who wanted an angel for her husband's grave. She had a photograph of him, a sheaf of printed prayers and no particular wish for a face. Aske gave her a face anyway, the one from the plaster cast in the corner, a woman with her head turned away as if someone had called her name from the far side of a field. He gave her braids down her back, a heavy drape across the hip, and wings folded close like a bird that had thought better of flying.

The trouble was the old angel. She stood against the left edge of the same slab, a leftover from the monument Aske's father had carved for the Pollards in 1911, and nobody had thought to take her down. Half a wing and one shoulder still showed where the new block had been set against her. Aske wanted them chiselled clean. I went out one evening with a torch and found, low on the plinth, small letters his father had cut and then hidden under the dust: a name, and beneath it the word wait.

I didn't tell him. I left the old wing where it was, and when the angel went up in October with the rain running off her shoulders, I stood at the back of the churchyard and watched the low sun come round the edge of the stone and find that older feather, still there, catching the light.