NZ Visual Diary - entry 274

performance

I take note of younger street musicians, proto-buskers usually accompanied by parents who wait attentively nearby, both to protect and encourage their would be prodigies. Of those aspiring musicians, I admire the alchemical mix of talent and ambition. With a posture of casual confidence, the young busker represented here played skilfully, his melody as pleasing to the ear as his highly polished saxophone was to the eye.

I bore a two-fold disappointment: he did not have a larger contingent of admirers who had stopped to enjoy his performance; and I carried neither coin nor paper currency with which to acknowledge my delight and reward his artistic enterprise. My habit of cash-less exchange was too practiced, and he had not determined that the investment in a QR code payment system would prove profitable.

Mine is gratitude expressed with flattering word and crafted image.