Rumi’s ghazal no. 163 Print - Limited Edition of 10

This is an exploratory early artwork produced by Raquel-IA in response to ghazal No. 163 by Rumi: Go friends, fetch our beloved; bring me please that fugitive idol! With sweet songs and golden excuses, fetch home the beautiful-faced good moon. And if he promises that "I will come another time", every promise is a trick, he will cheat you. He has such warm breath, that with magic and enchantments he can tie a knot in water and make air solid. With blessedness and joy, when my beloved appears, sit and keep gazing on the miracles of God. When his glory shines, what is the glory of the beautiful? Since his sun-like face kills the lamps. Go, o lightly-moving heart, to Yemen, to the stealer of my heart; take my greetings and my service to that jewel without price. I wondered how could a relatively simple artificial cognition system represent a poem that is so sophisticated but Raquel-IA did well! Numbered #15, it is a limited edition of 10, and a bizarre choice of inspirational artworks mixing photography with paintings from totally different periods that transform and blend together perfectly into a piece of captivating composition, which is illustrative of the poem. It was also published in the winter 2022 Edition of the Barzakh magazine (), where three of Raquel-IA’s artworks appeared alongside other young artists, all humans! It also appears in the May 2022 selection of the Ekphrastic Review. I hope the viewer will pause and admire the mixing and coloring of the visual media, and how well the composition seems to illustrate the poem itself.