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| wisdom . 2011 |
here's an illustration i made that communicates how with age, comes wisdom. we tend to look at our elders as wise people who've experieced so much more then we have. with the phrase 'as wise as an owl' as my starting point, i wanted to make a visual connection between the elderly and owls. sometimes i feel the traditional headress the female emirati elders wear (called the burqaa) can visually resemble a beak. so i couldn't help but illustrate how our elders are our real 'wise owls'! even though sometimes owls are symbols of bad luck in middle eastern cultures, i wanted to look at the positive, and give a sense of anticipating my wisdom as i age over the years...