Damavand
دماوندThe white cone of Iran’s highest mountain, across three canvases.
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The story
Damavand is the highest mountain in Iran, a snow-capped volcanic cone rising from the Alborz range north-east of Tehran. It has a long place in Persian legend: in the Shahnameh, the tyrant Zahhak is bound in the mountain by Fereydun.
Persiahaus Studio drew the peak as flat shapes on a deep lapis ground: a blue cone with a jagged paper-white snow cap, red foothills at its feet, a saffron sun and a thin saffron line along the ground. The faint bands in the sky give it the stillness of high air.