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Director David Lynch is best known for his dark, offbeat works in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Eraserhead,” and his television cult classic “Twin Peaks.”

Now the Morrison Hotel Gallery on the Bowery is featuring Lynch’s latest project “Dark Night of the Soul,” a series of photographs he created to be viewed with new music by Danger Mouse.

"Well what we're looking at here is another set of four photographs that coincide with one of the songs on the album,” says Morrison Hotel owner Peter Blachley. “It’s very much David Lynch and his style of creating a photograph, like many of us would take of a couple standing in front of their house, but really the underlying tension, once again, the underlying thing that's going on within all of this, is somewhat revealed in these other photographs of a bedroom.”

When Lynch's many TV and film fans come in, they're looking for the essence of his famous works.

“They walk in and they go, 'where is “Blue Velvet” in this?' and you know, 'where is the other film that he's done?'” says Blachley. “And they really love the style because it is very much David Lynch in terms of the photos that they see.

The marriage of music and the visual arts, of course, harkens back to the album cover. But despite that dying art form, Blachley says he wants to help make music visual again.

“Years ago when I was growing up, and people before me, we had something called an album cover, which was a 12 inch by 12 inch cardboard piece of material that you could put, as a musician, that you could put your ideas of what you thought the visual expression to your album was gonna be,” Blachley explained. “And people couldn't wait to get those albums and put it on the turn table, start to play it, and they'd open up the album cover, if it was a double spread, or they'd look at the back, which we call the liner of the album, or the front of the album, read the liner notes, get a sense, visually, of what this music was all about. It was very exciting, and then the albums went away.”

With music downloads taking over, Blachley says he's giving musicians a place to create a visual component to their music.