Black dotwork and geometric lotus mandala tattoo on a woman's wrist, with part of another tattoo visible on the forearm above it.

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Dotwork lotus mandala on the wrist

Dotwork · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A symmetrical lotus-style mandala sits on the inner wrist, built from pointed petals with fine stippled dots and a row of dots along the lower edge. The linework is crisp and the shading is made entirely from dots, with no solid fills. The photograph shows the wrist and hand against a plain white wall, with a dark sweater sleeve and part of a second tattoo visible further up the forearm.

Dotwork Geometric Forearm Mandala Lotus Ornament Dot Petal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The canopy of the carousel had split along a seam the night before the fair left Cromer, so Maud Harrow sat on an upturned crate under a lamp and pricked it back together. The cloth was old green sailcloth, and the pattern on it was a lotus, its petals pointed like flames, that old Sim Tully had worked into the cloth forty years before. Nobody on the fair knew how he had made the petals so even. Maud had watched him do it once, when she was small, and all he had said was that you never draw a line where you can put a dot.

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She worked through the dark with a bradawl and a tin of wax. Each dot took a breath. She set them in rows along the petal edges and then inside them, closer and closer, until the shading came up grey without a single stroke of paint. The boy who fed the generator came by with his hands in his pockets and asked why she didn't just stitch the lines and be done. Maud told him that a line breaks when the wind gets under it, but a dot only lets the wind through, and the cloth stays whole.

By morning the seam was closed and the canopy went up on its poles over the carousel. The wind came off the sea and filled it, and the sun came through the tiny holes she had pricked and lay on the wet grass in a hundred small lotus shapes, each one perfectly round. The boy ran through them barefoot, shouting that he was standing in flowers.

The fair moved on by noon. Maud folded the canopy and packed it in the back of the wagon, and a day later, when the field had been ploughed by someone else, a few shapes of light were still there on the stubble where she had stood.