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Watercolor on paper.
23x26cm.
Verdi's Va Pensiero chorus speaks of "the ruined towers of Zion", when the Jewish people return to their homeland after many years of exile in Babylon. I was thinking of the moment when the people see their holy city again, the moment when the former joins the present, after many years of absence. The Jews see the city of Jerusalem again, after a long time of suffering, when the zithers hung silently from a willow and the songs had died down: "How can we sing a song of Zion in a foreign land?" This scene reminds me of many things that mean returning, leaving behind a past. How many songs of happiness do we have stored in our hearts, waiting for a propitious time that we hope will one day arrive. And we never know if that time will ever come into our lives. Leaving a land in the past where we were not happy in the past in order to return to Zion: "In your irrigation ditches my hands wash away the dust of the lands behind," sings Jorge Cafrune in a beautiful zamba. In the tango "Volver" there is a bit of that, of reuniting with what was, and feeling that time has passed and that everything has been lost forever. It is like the path of the Jewish people when they see the city destroyed by the passage of time, a mixture of immeasurable happiness and sadness, which upset the heart in the most vivid feelings of happiness and unhappiness.
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