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Moving cross the borders of my Secret Life (aft L. Cohen)

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Moving ‘cross the borders of my secret life

A song by Leonard Cohen taken from a series called “The Secret Life” [Dunree, 2007]

Certain lines appealed because of their striking imagery, often dark but never despondent. The music itself was also a source of ideas.

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The Secret Life cannot be explained in words; otherwise it would not be a secret life! It falls, in Cohen’s own words, “among the voices and the wine”.

The paintings are a direct response to songs from Leonard Cohen’s albums “The Future” [1992] and “Ten New Songs” [2001]. Although all the songs effected me in a positive way, certain lines appealed because of their striking imagery, often dark but never despondent. The music itself was also a source of ideas

Leonard Cohen, for me, always evokes pictures. The setting, ostensibly, is nearly always urban yet his mind is constantly elsewhere: we are frequently drawn to some rural landscape or seascape.

However, he frequently evokes a time and place that existed eternities ago. Trees and rivers and seas have been around for a very long time; traffic jams only in the last few decades. The paintings do not represent Cohen’s urban world, but a world that belongs to no particular time and place, a world imagined when you close your eyes and nod off for a split second. Yes, they do indeed seem to fall among the voices and the wine!

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