drawing inspiration

A Married Couple by artist <n>Kenney Mencher</n>.

Detail from <n>An Old Man and his Grandson</n> (c. 1490) by <n>Domenico Ghirlandaio</n>.

<n>The Concourse of the Birds</n> (c. 1600) by <n>Habiballah of Sava</n>, illustrating a poem by <n>Farid al-Din `Attar</n>.

A 16th-century <n>Persian miniature</n> of a <n>dervish</n> and the <n>Simorgh</n> from <n>Attar of Nishapur</n>'s poem.

<n>Orpheus</n> (c. 1903-1910), a pastel by French <n>Symbolist</n> artist <n>Odilon Redon</n>.

<n>California Superbloom</n> in Walker Canyon, California. Photo by <n>Luke Tyree</n>.

<n>Habiballah of Sava</n>'s painting <n>The Concourse of the Birds</n> (c. 1600), from a manuscript of <n>Farid al-Din `Attar</n>'s poem.