“The world is full of beautiful things until an old man with a beard came into my life and set my heart aflame with longing and made it pregnant with love. How can I look at the loveliness around me, how can I see it, if it hides the face of my Lover?”
— Persian song
Watercolor, metal leaf on Cotman paper 300gsm. 50x50 cm.
The three letters of the word are abstracted into equal circles, mirrored by the three dots of the ش. The curve of the final ق is stretched into an egg shape evoking the pregnancy of longing, with a gold “potentiality”. Longing (شوق) is a firey ache in the heart, hence the crimson hue.
