‘I told you when I came I was a Stranger’ is a framed piece, acrylic on canvas, 68cm x 48cm. I hope to have it displayed in the upcoming Members Exhibition at the Emu Park Art Gallery which will open on December the 4th.
Inspired I tell you, I’ve been inspired. I have always loved the music of Leonard Cohen. Years spent sitting around the record player listening to Cohen on vinyl LPs rotating at 33rpm.
I’ve just finished watching the Leonard Cohen Series ‘So Long Maryanne’ on SBS and it was during the process of watching this that the light bulb went on.
I decided that I am going to attempt to do a series of Cohen art pieces using some of his brilliant song lyrics as my inspiration. No time limit for completion or how many involved. It will be a work in progress I hope.
Well this is my first completed one titled ‘I told you when I came I was a Stranger'(Cohen Series No1.) from The Stranger Song.
“And then taking from his wallet
An old schedule of trains, he’ll say
I told you when I came I was a stranger
I told you when I came I was a stranger”
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