Doc, the first piece about dead animals reminds me of a scene from Lynch's film The Straight Story. (spoiler) A young woman drives into and kills a deer, becomes hysterical about it and then drives off. The hero of the movie, an older man riding a lawn mower across country to visit his estranged brother, takes the carcass and fixes himself dinner!
On Sunday, November 24, 2013 8:24 AM, "doctordumb...@rocketmail.com" <doctordumb...@rocketmail.com> wrote: Artists often dig deep for material, and it threatens the idea of what art should be, for many observers. A good friend of mine is a lifetime artist - She has educated me on the subject matter that is considered acceptable in the art world, particularly with how women are portrayed. Lynch's stuff is off-kilter, and a little goes a long way, for me, but I appreciate his courage to display these things. The most challenging thing I find about creating art is the emotional questions it brings up, as it is being created. Good for him. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote: WHY is it spiritual? Because it's by David Lynch, of course. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/22/david-lynch-art_n_4318015.html?utm_hp_ref=arts >From the article: How do you mean spiritual? David is very into transcendental meditation, and there is a spiritual belief that when the gods name things they come into existence. To me, that felt like how David described his own process of naming. He always has to give something a name to make it into some kind of object. For example in one piece, "The Ricky Board," a 1987 drawing, he drew a bunch of rickies, or flies, and gave them proper names like Steve or John or Bucky. He said as he named each of the flies they took on personalities and had a kind of uniqueness to them. See? If someone else gave names to a bunch of flies, people would think he was a nut case. But when Lynch does it, it's spiritual.
