Black outline drawing of a lotus flower with pointed petals and curled base details on white paper, shown as a botanical tattoo design with no body placement visible.

Lotus flower outline design

Botanical · Black and grey · Flash

A bold black outline drawing of a lotus flower on white paper. A central upright petal is flanked by two pairs of outer petals that curve outwards, with a curled base, a small dot at the centre and teardrop shapes beneath. The linework is a uniform thick marker stroke in black with no shading or colour, and the design is centred in the frame.

Botanical Lotus Flower Petal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lamp in the scriptorium had been guttering since Compline, and Brother Anselm did not trust the wick to last until Lauds. He had three pages of the psalter left to ink, and the ink was thickening in its pot, so he worked fast, dipping and drawing with the brush held the way old Brother Ulric had taught him, loose from the wrist. The bell for the night office had gone quiet an hour ago. Only the rain against the shutter kept him company.

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He had been asked to make the lotus for the lid of the reliquary, the one the abbot said must look as though it had opened itself at dawn. Anselm had tried roses and vines and the knotted cross, and each time the abbot had shaken his head. The lotus, the abbot said, grows out of the mud and still comes up clean. Anselm had laughed at that, but now, with the lamp dying, he understood he had been drawing the mud all along and not the flower.

He lifted the brush and let the last stroke fall where it wanted: a single dot at the heart of the bloom, heavy as a drop of rain. Then he sat back. The wick sputtered and went out. In the grey before Lauds, the page held the shape of the flower, black and certain against the paper, and the reliquary lid was already waiting for it on the bench.