{"id":19,"date":"2016-04-23T19:31:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T19:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:45:07","slug":"birds-and-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/2016\/04\/23\/birds-and-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds and Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"feather<\/p>\n

In class, we discussed the imagery of birds in Islam. \u00a0Birds are meant to be symbolic of God. \u00a0In fact, the flight of birds is seen as proof of God’s existence. \u00a0To explore this concept, this week, I created a drawing of a feather in blues and turquoise. \u00a0These are common colors used in islamic art–especially in mosaic works. \u00a0I use solid blocks of color to create the feather to evoke the feel of a mosaic.<\/p>\n

Around the feather is a quote from The Conference of the Birds, a famous poem that discusses the journey of a group of birds to find their king. \u00a0The quote reads, “I am alone; make me your single goal, my presence is sufficient for your soul. \u00a0I am your God, your one necessary–withe every breath you breathe, remember me.” \u00a0Typically, bird imagery evokes God and his power and love. \u00a0The quote helps to reinforce this. \u00a0However, I try to do a play on this. \u00a0The image shows just a feather that has fallen off a bird. \u00a0The feather is falling back down to earth, indicating a questioning of the existence of God. \u00a0I further this idea by writing the second half of the quote describing the majesty of God upside down. \u00a0The goal of this piece is to question the typical notion of God evoked by bird imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In class, we discussed the imagery of birds in Islam. \u00a0Birds are meant to be symbolic of God. \u00a0In fact, the flight of birds is seen as proof of God’s existence. \u00a0To explore this concept, this week, I created a drawing of a feather in blues and turquoise. \u00a0These are common colors used in islamic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7986,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lreisig54blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}