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From the book “The Consolation of Objects“:

The hand holding the rose is from a nineteenth-century painting from the Mughal Empire. While the Turks studied and were influenced by the paintings in the Iranian manuscripts in the Topkapı Palace Museum, the Mughals learned a “different way” of painting through the Portuguese culture that spread from Goa to India, and in time discovered a style very different from the Iranian paintings.
On the second branch of writing that grows from the rose, there are verses by the poet Mahir from Eğribozlu:
“Where is the time when the rose came laughing? Now, when I think about how we laughed, I must cry.”

On the edge of the picture frame is written the most famous and incomprehensible verse by the poet Gertrude Stein (1874–1946):
“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”

The first frame is from the work Holy Family in a Wreath of Flowers by Frans Francken and Jan Brueghel in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. The second frame is from an eighteenth-century Iranian manuscript.