Orange line drawing of a symmetrical mandala with lotus petals and dotted detailing on a white background.

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Orange mandala lotus design

Geometric · Colour · Flash

A symmetrical mandala design shaped like an eight-petalled lotus, with a central rosette surrounded by concentric bands of ornament. The design is drawn in fine orange lines and dots with no shading, on a plain white background. Its repeated petal shapes and dotted borders are arranged evenly around the centre.

Geometric Dotwork Mandala Lotus Flower Ornament Rosette

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You have been on the scaffold board since seven, and the rose above the landing keeps coming away in your hands like wet bread. Mrs Ferrier calls up the stairs every twenty minutes to ask whether it will be done before the Thursday couple arrive, and every twenty minutes you tell her that plaster does not care about Thursdays.

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The rose is an eight-petalled lotus opened flat on the ceiling, with a central boss the size of a saucer and rings of ornament pressed into the wet mix in 1891 by someone with a brass tool and a steady wrist. The outer petals have softened at their tips where the sea damp found its way through the roof. You take the tapping stick from your apron and sound the rings one by one. Under the fourth band the note changes. Hollow.

You cut a square with the back of a chisel and find lath, and behind the lath a bundle of letters tied with tape, all addressed to a Mr Adolphus Greave at this same house. The top one is from a woman in Calais. She writes that she has counted the petals of the rose every night since he left and found eight every time, and that she will go on counting until the flower closes. Nothing in the bundle suggests Mr Greave ever replied, or that the landlady ever posted the replies he may have written.

You mix the lime a little wetter than the manual allows and press the first new petal into place with your thumb, angling it toward the window rather than the door, so that anyone looking up from the lane might see it open.