Oct
10
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My New Muse
After slaving on the phone for two hours, calling existing clients, I had to step out for a break. On my way out of the building, I noticed a small stairwell going up to God knows where. With Saloon style swinging doors, it was labeled “Dreamland Ballroom.” I had heard Kerry talk about the pending renovation, but had somehow failed to take a tour. I walked up the stairs , pushed opened the doors and found myself rapped in my own imagination as I first looked upon the soon-to-be renovated Ballroom. As I surveyed the enormous ceiling, and the stage which once held the likes of B.B. King and Duke Ellington, my imagination got the best of me. I thought about those who must have fallen in love there.
Suddenly, I can hear Nina Simone singing Duke Ellington’s “I got it bad, and that ain’t good.” I can imagine an eighty-year-old man, Henry, standing where I am, having returned after 60 years to peer upon the room where he first laid eyes upon his recently deceased wife, Alice. My mind runs over the story. “Henry meant to go to a juke joint on the night he met Alice. After he met Alice, he never went to a juke joint again.” Then someone yells, “Where’s Jason?” And I am back to reality, staring at the construction. I have to go back to the phones. But, in the back of my mind, Henry and Alice are still upstairs dancing and I can still hear Nina Simone singing. “I got it bad… and that ain’t good.”
Comments
Kristin and Jacob did a great job posing for me. Thanks you two love birds.
p.s. your so sweet it is kinda nauseating (in a good way)
How did you do the shadow?
Hey, R.J. The shadow in the Dreamland photo by Carolyn is actually a cutout that was already upstairs. She just put it in front of the window.
Jason