NIGHTINGALE & ROSE
This project was created with color pencils in a series of seven 4x7 inches artworks to illustrate the Persian tale of "The Nightingale and the Rose".
It is accompanied with the verses from my favorite Persian poets.
Birth of the Venus (Rose)
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Color pencil
4 x 7 in
2020
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"How
Did the rose
Ever open it's heart
And give to this world
All its
Beauty?”
"It felt the encouragement of light Against it's Being.
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too
Frightened"
Hafez
Ritual (Sunrise)
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Color pencil
4 x 7 in
2020
"Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the
Stone that puts the
Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a
Noose of Light."
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Omar Khayyam
(translated by
Edward FitzGerald)
Courtship
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Color pencil
4 x 7 in
2020
"A book of verses underneath the bough
A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness
And wilderness is paradise now"
Omar Khayyam
(translated by
Edward FitzGerald)
Solstice
Color pencil
4 x 7 in
2020
"Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow.
But that shadow has been serving you.
What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
Your boundaries are your quest.
I could explain this, but it will break the glass cover on your heart, and there's no fixing that."
Rumi
(translated by
Coleman Barks)
Death
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Color pencil
4 x 7 in
2020
"Goodbyes are only for these who love with their eyes.
Because for these who love with heart and soul
There is no such thing as separation"
Rumi
Harvest
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Color pencil
4 x 7 in
2020
"With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow: And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd –
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
Omar Khayyam
Dance with life
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Color pencil
4 x 7 in
2020
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"Waiting. Straining to hear - your voice that I may rise I’m heaven’s dove that from the earthy cage will rise"
Hafez
