“Le professeur de musique “ (The Music Teacher)

“Le professeur de musique “ (The Music Teacher). Jaime Carmona. Oil on canvas. 100 × 73 cm.

 I saw him in a Parisian bar, where the night weighed heavier than sound. The piano stretched across the room like a counter worn by time. Exhausted from teaching, smoking, listening, letting the music pass through him. Paris, dark and intimate, where music is barely heard, yet fills everything.