For the last two days I have been working on a song to say good-bye to Jeddah, a place that I admired and praised with many art works I created here. This is the second time I am saying good-bye to this lovely city that surprised me with its honesty. "It is what it is" as they say and Jeddah is hot and humid but the friendliness of its people always made me feel at home. I maintain that for us as South Africans, the Jeddah or Saudi landscape is an echo of what we know.
Why am I leaving then? Well the "music" stopped here for me; Jeddah is still lovely but there are other factors at play now that "forced" me to grab my guitar and recall the memories and impressions from afar - and unfortunately I have to reach for my suitcases too. I had to work through my Jeddah impressions in order to tie a ribbon around my departure. There are many friends and places I will dearly miss; it is painful to go.
I will insert the ending of my song here to share a few of the sentiments I "played" with during the last two days. Somehow making music - or attempting to "craft" music clumsily in my case - helps us to slice through many layers of denial, I think. (Do not say I said it!)
Door designs invite us We sit on red carpets Taste your dates
Art by Brancusi Moore and Miro
So hard now ... to let you go
(The art work pattern I included is called, "Music" and it reminds me of the door patterns in Jeddah. The doors will close behind me, oh, it is so easy to become too dramatic.)
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