Kadinsky and the taxi driver
I went to the Guggenheim to see the Kadinsky exhibit and still feel as if my love for his work resides in his earlier pieces – the thicker, darker hues, the Russian influence over the German and then French. Then I took a taxi to JFK. The driver was from Pakistan and we talked about the traffic that the UN delegation was causing – “Every year, the delegates come but don’t think about what it does to the poor guy who lives here.”
He asked me where I was headed and I said, “Home to New Orleans.”
He then asked, “How is it there now?” And I said, “We still have areas that are in recovery but on the whole we’re better, we’re good.”
I asked him how things were here since 9/11 and he said, “Fine, no problems.”
Because of a response I had gotten to my earlier post on 9/11 and its aftermath I asked how the city might have changed post 9/11. He said, “Restrictions. More restrictions.”