Photo: Bob Dylan, 2013 © John Shearer
Bob Dylan has discussed his latest venture, a collection of large metal sculptures, mostly made up of gates.
The iconic musician is currently displaying his work in a London exhibition titled Mood Swings, where his artwork (rather than his music) is being celebrated. Dylan's work is made up of scrap metal, mostly spanners, car parts, axes and chains. Dylan has revealed tha his interest in gates and what they represent.
"Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow," states Dylan in the brochure that accompanies the exbihition, reports the BBC. "They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference."
He continues: "I've been around iron all my life ever since I was a kid. I was born and raised in iron ore country - where you could breathe it and smell it every day. And I've always worked with it in one form or another."
Praising Dylan's work, Paul Green, president of London's Halcyon Gallery, praises Dylan's hands-on approach to his work.
"He's drawing from an industrial past, a working man's past," says Mr Green, reports the BBC. "It's partly about looking back but it's also about resurrecting these items and the physical act of putting these objects together.
"Dylan designs the works and decides which objects will be used. He does some welding himself and has one or two people to help him but he is intimately involved in the whole process."
Dylan's metalwork collection is currently on display at the Halcyon Gallery, 144-146 Bond Street, London.
