Behind the torn curtain: a New Orleans Valentine

            Wandering that afternoon through the New Orleans Museum of Art, suddenly lost in the museum’s rooms, in the time-warped flow I discovered Ubertini’s 16th century lute player serenading Henry Koerner’s 20th century lovers.

Ubertini had depicted his young musician contemplating the passing of time “where tales of passionate love are illustrated”.  Such is the reach of love over five hundred years . . . from a romantic Italian Renaissance landscape to Koerner’s modern bed to my shifting presence before the paintings . . . where, as Koerner wrote of his 1949 visit to the post-war ruins of his childhood home, the vision of the lovers appeared, as . . .

“. . . a puff of wind blew through the broken building.  I looked up to the room in which I was born.  I loved and belonged to the empty space behind the torn curtain.”

(Koerner titled his painting “Child’s Bed”.  He painted it the year I was born.  I like to think that Henry felt that puff of wind at the moment of my birth.)

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Taken on: February 2, 2019

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