This artwork is designed by combining two stories with the same theme and goal.

The first story is titled “Legend of the Seven Cities’ Lagoons” and tells the tale of a star-crossed love that remains forever immortalized in the end.

The second story is the tale of Khosrow Parviz and Shirin, which follows the same narrative pattern.

In the first story, the princess falls in love with the shepherd, but their love is not consummated. However, because of the lake that was the color of their eyes on each side, their names forever come together.

In the second story as well, the love between Khosrow Parviz (the Sassanian king of Iran) and Queen Shirin (Armenian) was immortalized through Nizami Ganjavi’s poem titled Khosrow and Shirin.

It doesn’t matter if the symbol is a two-colored lake (which is God’s art) or a poem as valuable as that (which is Nizami’s art), when the result is the same, it becomes another example of this important point:

The stories are the same, it is the narratives that create the differences.

The color combination in this artwork is completely related to the first story. Green and blue were the colors of the shepherd’s and princess’s eyes. However, the form of the artwork, which is a symbol of suspended infinity (referring to timelessness and placelessness), represents the concept of unconditional immortality in both stories, and its placement in a bubble-shaped space emphasizes the narrative and abstract nature of the design.