David Lynch was key to my understanding that artist-viewer dynamic where you don’t necessarily know what you’re looking at, but you feel confident the person who made it really does which makes you feel safe to just go with it. Led me onto a comfort with Beckett and whole strange worlds besides. RIP - ThreadSky

vinaypatel.bsky.social • 42 days ago

David Lynch was key to my understanding that artist-viewer dynamic where you don’t necessarily know what you’re looking at, but you feel confident the person who made it really does which makes you feel safe to just go with it. Led me onto a comfort with Beckett and whole strange worlds besides. RIP

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guylambertuk.bsky.social•42 days ago

Absolutely THIS. So many people try to do “surreal” and be like Lynch, but there’s no intelligence there, it’s just artifice. When you watch Lynch’s work, you know that he understands it on a level that maybe he can’t explain but it’s there

vinaypatel.bsky.social•42 days ago

Yes, it’s never an empty aesthetic. Always a weight of meaning, even if one presently unknown to all parties

csvich.bsky.social•42 days ago

every bit of this

vinaypatel.bsky.social•42 days ago

So much of my arts education was about “getting it”. Did you understand what it was doing? That’s good art (doubly so if it’s a Christ analogy). And ofc there’s satisfaction trying to make sense of Lynch’s imagery. But he let me disconnect comprehension from enjoyment & I’ll always love him for that

csvich.bsky.social•42 days ago

massive echo

vinaypatel.bsky.social•42 days ago

Me aged 17, coming home from my job at Virgin Megastore with a staff discounted copy of Lost Highway on DVD: “Time to commune with artistic greatness!”

Me, an hour later, terrified: “But…but…what happened to his eyebrows? WHERE ARE HIS EYEBROWS?!”

vinaypatel.bsky.social•42 days ago

Even in the darkest corners of his work, he was supremely fun. So few filmmakers know how to share a good time like Lynch did

vinaypatel.bsky.social•42 days ago

Finally: That audition scene in Mulholland Drive was, I think, the first time I involuntarily yelled “holy fucking shit!” in a cinema. Good night, sir.

tashmiaowen.bsky.social•42 days ago

Was that the one in Picadilly Circus?

vinaypatel.bsky.social•42 days ago

Bluewater!

tashmiaowen.bsky.social•42 days ago

Same.

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