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A man isn't truly free enough to fly

Materials
watercolor, paper
Size
28x38 cm (w/h)
Year
2022
Status
For sale
Price
€270,-
Certificate
Included
Signature
Included
Condition
Excellent

About the work

"A man isn't truly free enough to fly" watercolor and gouache on 140 lb paper 11" x 15".
After reading Mehran's poem, I got inspired to paint this artwork.
This is the original painting I used for my book "My sad is sadder than yours" to illustrate this poem :
Fluttering butterfly

on a sunny day
a blue fluttering butterfly
decided to spend time with humans
to get to know them better
as she was dancing and flowing
in the air from house to house
she could hear different stories
good ones and bad ones
but in all of them
humans would love to be free
they wished they could fly
while they had been chained
to their made boundaries
so she understood
why humans didn't have wings
she understood
a human isn't truly free enough to fly.

Mehran Hashemi