Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban
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| Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban |
Jan van Eyck painted it as a self portrait. The inscription at the top of the frame is original. It contains his motto Als Ich Can. Did he imply "as only I, van Eyck, can"? He signed some of the later paintings this way, but here it appears for the first time.
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Through mountains and sea
Welcome to this little odyssey
We just had chicken, you dined with me
Now I offer some lines of my poetry:
My head leans on the window of Caltrain
It’s 22nd St, a longing thought in my brain:
“Will I ever see John around here?”
I sit and dream you might appear -
Like flower dreams of morning sun
Like lips that crave that warm pork bun
But no.
It’s so unfair that I think of you so much
(though honestly, that’s what I like)
All I look forward to - is just a touch
(or maybe the Dish hike?)
When we embrace at our Palo Alto lunch
It’s warm and strong, just like Hong Kong
All I look forward to is to hear your voice again
As memories of you firing off within my brain
So I can look into your eyes with no restraint
Like admiring the strokes of the master’s paint
While gazing at the Portrait of a Man in Red Turban
That's hanging in the National Gallery in London
(that one I found, yet only as observant at distance, from the crowd)
Or when I saw your photo in that red-ish hoodie
And thought: “Gosh, he is such a cutie!”
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