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Seven lotus flower designs in black line work
Botanical · Black and grey · Flash
The image shows seven separate ornamental lotus designs arranged in a loose grid on a plain white background. Each motif uses fine black outlines with detailed inner petals, dots, scrolls and teardrop shapes, with no shading or fill. The designs vary in size and symmetry, and all are drawn in black ink only.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
The pattern book smelled of camphor and diesel, and my father kept it in the glovebox of the van because he said the desert would take anything left on a shelf. Seven sheets of tracing paper, each with a lotus drawn in black ink, and no two alike. He never told me which he liked best. He only told me to stop smudging them with my thumb.
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We were heading for Tarfaya on the coast road when the wiper blade gave up, so we pulled in beside a shuttered petrol station and waited for a lorry driver called Hamid to come past with a spare. He looked at the sheets over my shoulder and laughed. Every lotus, he said, was a little door. The outer petals kept the heat out and the teardrops let the good air in. My father said that was nonsense sold to tourists. Hamid only shrugged and tapped the largest one, its scrolls curling off the edge like smoke.
Three days later the van was fixed and we were back on the road, and I noticed the middle sheet was gone. My father had torn it out and taped it to the dashboard where the sun could not reach it. Nothing else had changed, except that the dust on the windscreen had settled into a fine pale line along its edge, following every curl of the scroll, as if someone had traced it there with a finger.
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