The Homa
This piece depicts the homa, who is too proud of its status as a mythical bird. Its silhouette encases warm, bright colors to invoke his associations with royalty and auspiciousness. I placed references to these themes all over the bird: his tail feathers display speckling analogous to gold coins, his wings have burnt orange patterning like rays of the sun to indicate his high opinion of himself, and royal crowns accent his torso. These decorations have various blurring and fracturing effects to indicate their ephemeral materialism. The homa lacks legs in order to match the legends that describe him as unable to land. The scattered bones and the crown-bearing skull symbolize the hoopoe’s critique, where even the power of kings is fleeting and irrelevant in the face of the Simorgh.
I digitally painted this piece using the art program Clip Studio Paint.
Background music: Original composition for Santur
by Danial Shariat