Black linework mandala tattoo with geometric and floral motifs on the upper thigh, with a few small reddish-brown petal accents.

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Mandala tattoo on the thigh

Geometric · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A large circular mandala covers the outer thigh, built from concentric rings of petals, diamonds and scalloped arches. The design is drawn in bold black linework with fine detail, and small reddish-brown dots and petal shapes sit between the outer rings. The subject fills most of the frame against a pale blue fabric backdrop.

Geometric Thigh Mandala Geometric pattern Flower Circle Petal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mother said the frost had taken the glass and the seed order both, so we would make do with the rhubarb and whatever the pigeons left us. I was twelve and had strong views about making do. Father had drawn the walled garden years before on the back of a tithe receipt: a circle inside a circle, petals stacked on petals, diamonds at the points, scalloped arches like the teeth of a clock. He had never planted it that way. The beds in our garden ran straight, as beds should.

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I found the receipt in the drawer with the string and the dead batteries. Under his pencil he had written, in his cramped hand, Centre last. I took that to mean the rose bed in the middle, though there was no rose, only a square of couch grass and a hole where the sundial had been. I knotted a length of twine to a cane, pinned the far end into the soil and walked it round, counting. Sixteen petals in the outer ring. Eleven in the next. Diamonds clipped from box between them, and between those the little rust-brown wallflowers Father had always grown in pots and never in earth.

Mother watched from the kitchen window with her arms folded and said nothing for three weeks, which was how I knew she was watching. By midsummer the rings were complete and the paths ran out from the centre like the spokes of a wheel. The centre stayed bare. I had no money for a rose and no courage to ask her for one.

The morning I finally noticed, the sun came low over the wall and every shadow of the outer rings fell across the paths exactly where his pencil lines had been. Mother came out in her boots, walked past the rhubarb and stood in the middle of the bare square without a word, as if she had been waiting to be asked.