The Parrot
This is an image of the parrot who is too proud of its spirituality. In my drawing, using an app on my laptop called Autodesk Sketchbook, I drew a parrot breaking free of her cage and flying through the sky, finally free and dreaming of a land in which she could be free eternally. On the cage, there are fallen feathers, some with blood on them, to depict the struggle the parrot had to escape. There is also blood dripping from the end of the cage to a puddle on the floor to emphasize the pain she has dealt with. While in the sky, flying free for the first time, the parrot dreams of a land she’s never seen, but has imagined enough for it to be a clear photo in her head. In her dream, she sits on the branch of a tropical tree, resting comfortably and listening to the sounds of the waterfall stream in front of her. The stream of immortality. Here she stays with its guardian, Khezr, who she thinks treats her as an equal and not as a prisoner. Her dream world is noticeably more stylistically sketched, the colors of the waterfall less visible and the colors of her feather a different shade. This is to symbolize that her dream is not reality. That what she’s imagining isn’t real and will never be. She doesn’t truly know what the stream or Khezr looks like, so it’s coloring isn’t as sure as the rest of the image. The bird in her dream also looks relatively different because she will never BE the bird in that dream. It’s unrealistic, not set in stone, and the drawing mimics this.
Background Music: Original Composition for Santur
by Danial Shariat