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Peacocks and Pomegranates 🦚🍎 (2 of 5, 2019)

More West Asian symbolism just for some diasporic fun, so naturally a peacock for the bird-loving side of me and a pomegranate tree and a borage flower for the plant-nerd side of me. I drew face in the same style that I drew myself in the 3rd page of my short comic on eyebrows, emphasising rather than manga-fying my big round forehead, my Armenian nose, and my slowly thinning hair. The only things that I’ve made even more beautiful (than they already are)? My eyes and eyebrows, but they’re not far off from reality.  The pomegranate tree image is from a photo I took of a wall painting that was printed in this prison museum I visited in Tehran in 2016. It is so far removed from the original painting that it printed out at really low quality, so I made it more vibrant with some ink and watercolour pens. The red diamond-shaped Armenian/Turkish carpet pattern is from a paper bag I got at a Turkish restaurant a few years ago. I held onto the paper bag cos I really liked the carpet pattern printed on it and I’m a bit of a hoarder of things like that, especially if it can save me from using my own precious printer ink just to print a low-resolution rug picture from the internet.

The symbol that repeats at the top and bottom of each diamond that looks like a little head with two braids (or a bull with horns) is apparently one of many traditional variations on the symbol for women that is often used in west asian carpets of the more folky and less fancy kind. Back in 2016 I loved learning about the symbolism imbued in these carpets.

The Turkish restaurant that I got this carpet pattern image from is somewhere in Central London, near the South Bank. I visited when some contemporary art world friends invited me to dinner with them after some art event we were all at, back when I used to have an interest in taking my career in that direction. That was a whole era ago, and I only realised much later how exhausting it is trying to do something meaningful that’s also beautiful and accessible in an industry that’s so dry and pretentious, on top of trying to socialise with some of these kinds of people, lol.

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ROSETTE

“A rosette is a horizontal cross section of a flower,” notes Albright. Imagine a circular form viewed from above.

From Wikipedia:

In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves. In flowering plants, rosettes usually sit near the soil. Their structure is an example of a modified stem in which the internode gaps between the leaves do not expand, so that all the leaves remain clustered tightly together and at a similar height. 

Many plant families have varieties with rosette morphology; they are particularly common in Asteraceae (such as dandelions), Brassicaceae (such as cabbage), and Bromeliaceae.

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