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**The Faravahar Symbol.**
**.نشان فروهر**

My museum exhibit focuses on the Faravahar, which is the most recognizable symbol of Zoroastrianism. The reason I chose to focus on the Faravahar was because I thoroughly enjoy being able to integrate my culture into my artwork. Not only does it allow me to share authentic styles, but I get to research and learn more about my background thoroughly. The topic of Zoroastrianism has been in the back of my head for a while and this was a chance to fully develop it. Another reason I chose this was especially because of the abuse of religion and ideals in Iran over the past 43 years, and I wanted to look on the brighter side of religion in Iran for once. There were several things that went wrong during this project. Firstly, I kept changing my mind on the placement of my composition and the different shades of hues I was using. I might have changed the gradients more than a dozen times! Then, I came across the issue of how to input Farsi for the label. It took a while, but after some help from Google and my parents, the result was awesome. In the end, these struggles resulted in a beautiful layout with my best work on display. The total time I spent on this project is about 10 hours (roughly) and to be truthful, I expected about the same or even a bit less.