Hi All 👋 My entry for this week’s challenge, set by Egidio: Music to my eyes.

Now, this was a real tester; I didn’t think I would have anything to contribute to Egidio’s prompt.

I don’t really associate music with my pictures apart from one particular song that has stuck with me all my life. I first heard the song “Forever Autumn” by Justin Hayward as a young child & whenever I see autumnal scenes, the song plays in my mind.

To that end, I’ve concentrated on the one song & imagery that I associate with it.

The song is from the 1978 Jeff Wayne adaptation of War of the Worlds & is about the main character reminiscing about how he & his wife used to kick through the autumn leafs in a passed time.

Here are some more pictures that instantly bring this melancholy song to mind.

I’ve been working with AI through DALL-E to bring some of the lyrics in the song to life.

I created the following pictures from the line “Through autumn’s golden gown we used to kick our way.” The first & second depict a happy couple enjoying an autumn day, and the third is a more sombre picture of a man reminiscing about a past time; a shadowy figure of his wife walks ahead of him.

The next line I chose to imagine is: “I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky.” To soften the look, I also decided to do this as a watercolour.

I misheard the lyrics with this next one; I was working on visualising the line, “Like the song through the trees, you came to love me.” To me, this represented the sound of wind & rustling leafs blowing around the trees.

The actual lyrics are “like the sun through the trees, you came to love me”. I actually prefer my version as I think it conjures up better visuals. This is the revised image (I still prefer my mistake).

The next one provides quite a strong visual: “A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes, as if to hide a lonely tear.” This was very difficult to visualize, and it took many attempts at rewriting the prompt to create an image that fit the words and what was in my mind’s eye. The carousel below is the culmination of my efforts; let me know your favourite.