I was walking home from my office on 42nd Street in New York City one crisp autumn day, keeping step with the rhythm of a Whitney Houston song playing on my iPod. As I strode up Sixth Avenue, I couldn’t help smiling at the sweet concurrence of sounds, images, and thoughts enveloping me. Let me explain.
Whitney was singing, “Love will save the day” and then, in another tune, “Ain’t it shocking what love can do.”
At 55th Street I passed the Robert Indiana sculpture, “LOVE.” As legend has it, American Pop artist Robert Indiana was inspired by having seen the words, “GOD IS LOVE,” on the wall inside a Christian Science church he attended as a child, when he created his famous “LOVE” image in the 1960s. Most people have seen some version of this pop art, as it has been reproduced in various forms, including a set of best-selling Christmas cards by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and as a US postage stamp.
