Black and grey realism tattoo of a seated winged Egyptian figure in a headdress, spread across the centre of the chest.

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Winged Egyptian figure on chest

Realism · Chest · Black and grey · Photo

A seated figure in an Egyptian style, wearing a tall headdress, sits centrally with large feathered wings spreading out to both sides. A tall stylised emblem rises above the figure's head. The linework is soft and the shading is detailed, with graded greys across the feathers and body. The tattoo fills the centre of the frame against warm-toned skin.

Realism Chest Egyptian Winged figure Wing Headdress Seated figure Feather

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You are halfway up the stepladder when Mr Pask calls up from the floor of the Corn Exchange to ask whether the goddess might have her wings a touch wider, the way the handbill from London showed them. The handbill is pinned to his clipboard, creased soft from his thumb. You tell him wings are wings and climb another rung with the sable brush held between your teeth.

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The figure is nine feet of plaster and paint, a cast taken from something in a London case that would not be lent out. Her seated body is the colour of weak tea, her headdress rises tall as a chimney, and above it the standard stands on its thin pole like a lamp post waiting for lighting-up time. You work the feathers in graded greys, dark at the tips and paler toward the shoulder, until by eleven the wings look ready to lift the whole hall off its foundations. Mr Pask says it is the finest thing the Rotary Club has ever paid for.

The real article is in Leeds. The crate that came to Market Stowe held only straw and a letter of apology. Still the posters go up along the High Street, and on the Saturday children queue along the pavement. A boy with a bicycle clip on one trouser leg stands in front of the wings and asks whether she can really fly. You tell him she can, provided he holds very still and nobody looks too closely.

When the hall empties you stay on the ladder with the lamps off and the tin of grey mixed to a shade you will never manage again. In the bottom corner, where the plaster meets the wall, you paint a small feather of your own, no longer than your thumb, and sign it with the initials nobody in Market Stowe will ever think to ask about. Then you climb down, because the paint is still wet, and the wings, for one more night, are going nowhere.