Writing about David Lynch
So now he has left, to another place. As for many creative people or those whom I call friends or simply happen to know, David Lynch was a generation-defining artist. He opened the door to another world, a world that was difficult to make sense of. In this way, he reconciled me with a world that made little sense, either. His powerful imagery, music, characters, and stories will continue to resonate. I wrote about his work, more specifically Twin Peaks, for German architecture magazine Baumeister in 2018. In his revolutionary TV series, Lynch establishes an impossible space that is both the subconscious substrate and also the central psychological place of a phantasmagorical "whodunnit": the "Red Room." More than simply a pragmatic film maker's hat trick by transforming the stage curtain into an environment, the Red Room becomes a space where the action reaches its climax and where the real and surreal protagonists of the series get together. My essay was ...