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.
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