bob65 was a 2007 solo exhibit for Toronto's annual festival of photography. Referencing CONTACT's theme that year of "The Constructed Image", the artist explored portraiture, aging, identity, image and bob's role in her own life through photographs she took of Dylan in concert in 1965, when he was 24, and in 2006, when he was 65.

This photo in two versions was inspired by bob the civil war buff.

In November 1965 at Massey Hall, the young bob played acoustic in the first half, and then 'went electric' with the Hawks (later the Band) in the second half.

This 1965 photo salvaged from her b/w snapshots of the concert with a barely there baby bob was the catalyst for taking the photographs of bob at age 65.

Forty-one years on, another November, another 65, substituting the keyboard for the guitar...bob still electrifies.

Using context, colour and detail, some photographs evolved through composite imagery to reflect 'bob truth': the philosophical/poetic blending of myth and reality in a simultaneously edifying/elusive manner.

Art and life's illusive truths are pondered by the artist and bob in a stroll in the East Village on Thanksgiving Day 06.

As with painted portraiture, detail can be selective to emphasize a mood or quality.

The grace of aging true to one's passion...

The young artist with a collage of her bob drawings and the lost bob painting which she threw into a dumpster behind Rochdale in 1970 (after X said: "it's fine, but it's not Rembrandt'). She did not paint for years after.

The artist's first attempt to paint bob after the dumpster ditch is stopped before it begins...

and another attempt failed...

and another attempt failed...

and then Rembrandt arrives by accident singing Not Dark Yet in this photo. The chiaroscuro signature of the Dutchman is captured by pure chance through shifting stage lighting and underexposure.

The song and dance man...
enjoying the London crowd

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky...
with one hand waving free...

MacDougal Street...
looking out at breakfast from the Washington Square Hotel...

Washington Square Park...
Bob waits under the Hangman's Elm, planted circa 1665

MacDougal Street again...
Bob passes by the Cafe Wha?

Times Square...
times, they are changing

Times Square again...
a new singer sings an old song...

Thanksgiving from a taxi window...
a hard New York rain meets a soft London moment...

Some images are available in archival limited edition prints. Contact the artist directly for details.