Perhaps He Is a Gypsy

June 12, 2012 by Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

This gentlemen was singing and making music today down at Dupont Circle this afternoon. It would be easy to write him off as insane, and maybe he was insane, maybe he is insane.
He sang the word Jesus from time to time and sang over and over again about how gorgeous the day was.
He doesn’t fit my white middle class prism on the world. Maybe he is a gypsy 2012.
This picture makes me think of the work of Diane Arbus, and that frightens me.

About Tim Ruane

Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.