That’s why we love him, right? We adore his movies because they are dark and puzzling. They have a surprising end or for the most parts, no end at all. He doesn’t give solutions just impressions and leaves it to the audience to spin a story in their minds into whatever preferred direction. He prepares the canvas and you draw on it – your personal thriller or romance or comedy – choose, you are the artist. In this way, he serves us in the most noble sense – not giving us an explanation or an ending – nothing ever ends. The beauty and the freedom of uncertainty – this is as close as he can get to the reality of human condition. 
Something fascinated him about Oskar Kokoschka . He planned to study with this Austrian expressionist but left Vienna after 15 days again.
I don’t know what made him return so fast but I remember getting the feeling of a medieval Disney Land at times while living there. Some Austrian artists had a major impact on me none the less.
Danger Mouse decided to release a 100 page booklet of photographs by Lynch along with a blank CD-R, due to an ongoing dispute with EMI about the release of the new “Dark Side of the Soul” project. There is no music on the CD and it is not a book with a blank CD but a blank CD with a huge booklet - burn your own soundtrack on it.
David Lynch’s Photographs are narratives, inspired by each songs of the album – fifty-seven creepy shots with a favorism for day and night contrast and super-exposure – you know what I mean, they could be extracts of his motion pictures.
Check it out: “The Dark Night of the Soul” until July 11, 2009
Michael Kohn Gallery
8071 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90048 USA
see all photographs of this exhibition on artnet.com
Edit 1: Did I forget to mention that the line for the show opening on Saturday had the length of a street block? Delirious LA.
Edit 2: This is an excellent post about Lynch and the crucial balance between meaning and meaninglessness in art by Colin Marshall and The War on Mediocrity.
Absorbed: What day is it again? – or – Working like a Beserk – or – Who needs sleep anyway?
Photo by Lindsey Best
I am in the process of updating my web page to create a suitable base for my little upgrade project that will include many more options for you, my dear friends.
I learned how to find, copy and paste the correct CSS code into the appropriate areas of my – !Achtung! new term!!!- child theme of my brand new purchased wordpress theme and accomplished to add the Long Story into my About section – so here we go.
I had tons and tons of things to write about, for example the PJ Harvey Concert at the Wiltern I fortunately got reminded of ( I am a very, very bad fan – I even miss my favorite bands when they’d play in my drive way or like Radiohead last year at the Hollywood Bowl ) – or the ” Built” show by Createfixate, an Art/Architecture/Design show in downtown Los Angeles last weekend, but there are all those little adjustments that have to be done, due to the complexity of the situation, around the entire online presence thing. I can say I am heavy lifting for sure at the moment but I will be back as usual soon.