Title: The Rose and The Nightingale
Gallery:
My Inner Garden
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Gouache on Paper 18x24
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The Rose and The Nightingale
December, 2004
Shiraz, Iran
This work is inspired by Hafez's Ghazel: The Rose and The Nightingale. Each rose and nightingale is my tribute to the nightingale which lost its life, piercing its breast on the thorn of the rose while trying to become one with its beloved.I painted the English Robin and later heard an old fable maintains that Robin got its red breast from a splash of the blood of Christ. As I painted I felt I was communing with my Beloved within me.
