Brooklyn Heights (2016)
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Brooklyn Heights is a nostalgic street scene, with brownstone houses, bright and hopeful morning light, shadows playing across the pavement, and bare trees arching across the sky. Two figures stroll through the scene, evoking quiet reflection on daily life and the passage of time. Dylan's loose, broken brushwork and unmixed colours establish clear connections to French Impressionist techniques. Like Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dylan allows each colour to exist independently while capturing the vibrancy of the natural world. The soft watercolour tones manage to create bold shapes and bold contrasts, but with slightly blurred outlines, as if the viewer is looking back on an old memory.

The choice of Brooklyn Heights as a subject carries biographical resonance for Dylan. His song Tangled Up In Blue references Montague Street - a main thoroughfare in Brooklyn Heights - and Dylan had connections to the area through journalist Al Aronowitz during the 1960s. This personal connection deepens the streetscape’s context as a meditation on memory and place, reflecting Dylan's mission to document America authentically rather than through mainstream tourist perspectives.