Original design

watercolor painting on 600 gr hot press watercolor paper.
Within a cosmic shell, an infant rests in the embrace of the goddess of Mithra. A radiance of love pours from her body, adorning the world with tenderness; from this love, flowers unfurl, birds and butterflies take flight, and the cosmos draws a renewed breath. The shell opens through this very love, setting life into motion, as colorful fish join the eternal current of existence within a celestial blue river.
Around this luminous core, the lotus emerges from the waters as a sign of awakening and consciousness. Here, water becomes the primordial memory of life itself—an ancient current carrying the fish along the orbit of the cycle of being. Below, a silver blade splits the shell downward, channeling two streams—of meaning and of love—into the depths of the world.
Triads of winged and swimming beings—birds, butterflies, and fish—take on the role of guardians of the cycle. They are not mere ornamentation, but mechanisms of preservation, reminding us that birth without love lacks impact, and without guardianship lacks endurance.
“The First Light of Mithra” envisions a world in which love is not an emotion but a force: the primal mover of existence.

A collection of drawings and handwritten texts by Niyaz

In this collection, love is not declared in bold words, but whispered in the margins—within the curve of a branch, in the silent flight of a small bird, in the gentle trace of a pencil, and in lines that are sometimes readable, sometimes fading, yet always carrying deep emotion.

Each piece is a blend of pencil drawings and handwritten texts that wrap around the image like a soft breeze, merging into a single voice. These writings are not mere decoration; they are part of the story. Sometimes they hide a tale, sometimes they murmur an unfinished poem, and sometimes they simply hold a meaningful silence.

In On the Margins of Love, image and word are not in opposition, but intertwined—just like love itself: at once spoken and unspeakable. This collection invites the viewer to read with both eyes and heart—a reading that may begin with the gaze of a bird and end in a hidden word among the lines.