Remembering David Lynch
David Lynch, 1946 - 2025
In his obituary on David Lynch in The New York Times today, J. Hoberman commented on the approach the filmmaker took when talking about his work during interviews. “Distrustful of language, viewing it as a limitation, or even a hindrance to his art, he often spoke in platitudes. Like those of Andy Warhol, Mr. Lynch’s interviews, at once laconic and gee-whiz, were blandly withholding.”
When we interviewed David Lynch by phone in June of 2018, we encountered observations more accurately characterized as vividly expansive. Throughout the 12 page interview there is evidence of the working of his imagination as “a big, beautiful place, but it is also pitch dark.”
The complete interview, Dark Enlightenment, is available in its entirety here.
David Lynch, I Was a Teenage Insect, 2018, mixed media painting, 66 x 66 inches. Courtesy the artist and Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles.
