{"id":35,"date":"2019-11-07T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/?p=35"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:31:16","slug":"8-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/2019\/11\/07\/8-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/HERON-Draft-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/HERON-Draft-1-491x636.png\" alt=\"The outline of a heron is filled with crashing waves and chains around a broken heart.\" width=\"449\" height=\"582\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/HERON-Draft-1-491x636.png 491w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/HERON-Draft-1-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/HERON-Draft-1-791x1024.png 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The heron is too enamored by the ocean to leave its side in order to pursue the Simorgh. The piece&#8217;s simple design encapsulates his single-minded obsession with the sea. He describes his love in terms of \u201cjealous rage\u201d and haunting the shore in desolation. His attachment to the ocean engulfs him, and so the sea occupies the main position in his silhouette. Mirroring how the hoopoe criticized the heron for loving an \u201cinconstant tide,\u201d the waves designed within the heron are tumultuous and violent. From the painted darkness of the heron\u2019s depicted misery is a bleeding, broken heart. I accented his form in numerous, subtle chains in order to demonstrate how enslaved he is to the Self and to a lawless body of water that cannot reciprocate his love.<br \/>\nThis composition was digitally painted in Clip Studio Paint.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-35-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Heron-Audio.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Heron-Audio.mp3\">\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Heron-Audio.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>\nBackground music: Original composition for Santur<br \/>\n<\/em><em>by Danial Shariat<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heron is too enamored by the ocean to leave its side in order to pursue the Simorgh. The piece&#8217;s simple design encapsulates his single-minded obsession with the sea. He describes his love in terms of \u201cjealous rage\u201d and haunting the shore in desolation. His attachment to the ocean engulfs him, and so the sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}