The Hawk
This is a scene of the Hawk who is too proud of its social standing as the bird of kings.
I chose to depict the Hawk with its wings fully extended, glorious and majestic… and fully aware of it. Although the tail of the Simorgh is visible in the corner, with its red tail feathers beckoning from outside the frame, the Hawk is turned away from the Simorgh’s call. The Hawk chooses to fixate upon worldly glories, namely victory on the battlefield and the favor of kings. However, I also chose to have a faded, yet colored, Hawk superimposed behind the physical Hawk. This is meant to represent the larger potential for divinity within the Hawk, if only it turned towards the Simorgh’s call. The presence of the Simorgh in the corner (although only partly due to the fact that the Hawk has yet to embrace the call of divinity) represents that the potential for connection with the Simorgh is not fully lost. This scene was created by blending photographs on Adobe Photoshop Mix.
Background music: Original composition for Santur by Danial Shariat.