Muhammad Baqir

Muhammad Baqir seemed to live inside his sketchbook, always drawing on whatever scrap was handy, even the margins of his uncle’s ledgers. He had a habit of sketching roses so vivid you’d swear you smelled them. The twist is he never painted the nightingale; it’s just implied, a whisper of movement in the petals. Peek at Roses and Nightingale and you’ll see what he meant by “silent song.”