The Nightingale
This is an image of the nightingale who is too in love with the rose to go on the journey. I chose to depict the nightingale at rest, as he has no desire to leave the rose’s side. While he stares transfixed at his love, he fails to notice some important details of the world around him, such as the petal falling off the flower or the Simorgh’s tail feathers in the top right corner of the scene. The petal is meant to symbolize the brevity of life, and the nightingale’s failure to acknowledge his love’s short life makes him far less likely to ever want to seek out eternal greatness in the Simorgh. The Simorgh is actually the light source for the shot, and the bird’s positioning underneath the branch is meant to symbolize his ignorance of God. The flower is turned to the Simorgh and away from the bird, showing that even the most basic forms of life are capable of acknowledging the Simorgh’s authority as the one above all. I made this picture using grid-paint.com, a free pixel art creation studio.
Background music: Original composition for Santur
by Danial Shariat