Pen drawing of a layered mandala flower design in blue and teal ink in a spiral sketchbook, with two pens resting beside it.

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Blue and teal mandala flower design

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A symmetrical mandala design drawn in ink on cream paper in a spiral-bound sketchbook. A dark blue mandala with a flower-like centre sits above a lighter turquoise mandala with leaf-like petals and a pointed base. The fine dotted and scalloped linework is built up in layers, with the blue and teal sections overlapping the same circular composition.

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The lamp in the back room of the chandler's shop on Pell Street had been left on since Tuesday, and Maud Ferrier had stopped asking who was paying for the oil. She sat at the counter with the sketchbook open between a coil of tarred rope and a tin of brass polish, tracing the dark blue flower with the tip of her biro as if it might lift off the page. Her brother had drawn it in ink the winter before he went north for the herring boats, then drawn the paler one underneath, the same circle laid over itself so the petals showed through like light through a shutter.

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She had never understood how he managed the scallops. Every edge had to close exactly where it began, he used to say, or the whole thing would drift. When the post finally came she found his letter tucked inside the back cover, two lines long, asking her to keep the pens dry and not to let Mrs Coombs at the fish quay near the sketchbook. Maud laughed out loud at that, alone in the shop with the gulls shouting over the harbour wall.

She picked up the teal pen. It was the one he had always used for the lower mandala, the leaves at its base and the little drop beneath them that he said was a seed or a tear depending on the weather. She began a new petal beside his, following the dotted rim until it met the place where his line had stopped, and let the two shapes overlap. By morning the page had two flowers on it, and neither of them looked finished.