Wedding Poem II
Size: 5.5" x 8.25"
Completed: 2003
I used Bristol PrismaColor pencils to illustrate the decorations on this composition and wrote the text in script with a stanford Uniball Micro.
The figures depicted are mehteran, or military musicians of the Ottoman Empire. The fellow in the center is a köszen, or drummer; the two others are zurnazen, or players of a Turkish woodwind known as a zurna.
