Despite the ice falling from the sky in my area, it is Springtime and the season began on March 20. March 21 and the Spring Equinox is designated as "NoRuz," the Persian New Year. I made sketches of NoRuz ceremonies during my time with the Zoroastrians of the Indian Parsi and Iranian diaspora and this was my Equinox sketch for 1998. The traditional "NoRuz table" is laid out in homes and restaurants and displays abundant flowers, a variety of symbolic fruits and sweets as well as coins (symbolizing prosperity), candles, and a book of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian holy scriptures. In the center is a metal urn for the sacred fire, which is kindled on a dish set on the urn's edge.
Black tech pen on sketchbook page, 8" x 5", March 21, 1998.
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