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October Songs

  

When Bob Dylan released 'Mother of Muses' in June 2020, I was reminded of an older song, 'Father of Night' from New Morning. Released fifty years earlier in October 1970, it is the last song on Dylan's eleventh studio album, and one which sparked my interest in Dylan's use of nocturnal imagery, a theme which had found its way into my Midwinter Muses and Motifs exhibition (2018) and inspired this series of artworks, where dreams, mystery and shadows reside.

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Wild Cathedral Evening Prufrock Two riders were approaching, and the wind began to howl 'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood  
 
How many roads must a man walk down? NIght after night you wander the streets of my mind You've Got Gold Lovesick  
 
Shadows are falling and I've been here all day Like in a dream, when someone wakes up and screams Never Say Goodbye The Nightingale's Code  
   
  Series of Dreams Mr Tambourine Man