Author: Mackenzie Finocchiaro

The Duck

This is an image of a duck who is too proud of her purity because she is always performing ablations in water.  I chose to represent the duck in the way I did for a number of reasons.  First of all, it is not an artistic rendering, but rather a photograph of a duck I […]

The Valley of Bewilderment

The picture representing the Valley of Bewilderment is a mixture of artistic rendering and actual photography.  The background picture is an actual picture of a sunset I took while on a flight to Virginia from Boston, and it has been colorized to an extent.  The mountains and birds, however, are drawings that I added to […]

The Birds Meet the Simorgh

The following picture is a representation of the thirty birds who have completed the inner journey of reaching the Simorgh.  There is a gathering of thirty birds at the bottom of the photograph, carefully observing a reflection of themselves above.  The reflection is within the shining sun, representative of the Simorgh who reigns.  The sunlight […]