Dark Night of the Soul (exhibition catalogue). Written and produced by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse; visuals by David Lynch. New York: PowerHouse Books, 2009. The twin careers of David Lynch: We visit the director’s art exhibition in Middlesbrough.” BBC News, 15 December 2014. Web. Yerebakan, Osman Can. “David Lynch’s Otherworldly Gaze is Not Bound to Film” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Cultured, 22 December 2022. https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/12/22/david-lynch-film-painting-art Fonder, Sarah. “David Lynch Has a Solo Art Exhibition Coming Up in Los Angeles.” Flavorwire, 14 November 2013. Web. It astonishes me that someone with his depth of character after decades of engagement with this tradition could still sound like the most zealous new recruit, fully abuzz with naive enthusiasm for this tradition, still convinced that this one technique with its dubious historical credentials is the right thing for all people in all places. He uses the term "Vedic" without giving much sense that he understands what the word means, and sounds in all seriousness like he's in spiritual kindergarten.

Adelson, Fred B. “David Lynch: ‘Philadelphia is Percolating in Me’.” Courier Post, 23 October 2014. Web.

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if you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch a big fish, you’ve got to go deeper’.

To me the most salient example of this is with respect to spiritual insight. If you are a Lynch fan, you probably know that he is an enthusiastic advocate for the Transcendental Meditation(tm) technique of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and has zealously promoted this approach for many years. Indeed, he interrupts his reflection in this book several times to offer a pitch for the practice, which is, in his account, the only way we're going to turn this ship around and stop making a mess of the world. David Lync: Photographs and Drawings, David Lynch, Kohn/Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, May 6–June 3, 1995.

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David Lynch presents drawings + paintings for naming exhibit at mima.” Designboom, 23 November 2014. Web. Twin Peaks Fans Ecstatic As David Lynch Brings Art Exhibition To MIMA.” Artlyst, 13 November 2014. Web. An enjoyable if somewhat anodyne trawl through the life and career of the wonderful David Lynch. I listened to the audiobook which is enlivened by David Lynch adding off the cuff memories and anecdotes to the more formal chapters of the print version of the book.What Lynch sees, and then puts on screen for us to see, is one of the great enigmas of cinema, one that has launched a thousand film studies PhDs. When the director looks at a manicured lawn, his mind’s eye tunnels beneath it to hidden mystery, mysticism and depravity – visions he has turned into mind-bending television and film. It’s an oeuvre people tend to love or detest, and even devotees don’t claim to fully understand. With the exception of The Elephant Man (1980) and The Straight Story (1999), his films are oblique and non-linear. Who is the chipmunk-cheeked Lady in the Radiator who crushes sperm-like worms while singing to the father of the mutant baby in Eraserhead? How much of Mulholland Drive is real, or dreamed by Naomi Watts’ aspiring actor? And is the ending really the beginning? He also believes in reincarnation, which keeps him Zen about growing old. 'Life is a short trip. We’ll all meet again' NOTE: if you google David Lynch ‘paintings’... you’ll be amazed of how much he has done - subconscious surreal bizarre paintings!!!!

David Lynch: I Like to See My Sheep, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, November 4–December 17, 2022.David Lynch: Chaos Theory of Violence and Silence, La Foret Museum, Tokyo, November 10–December 2, 2012. (Catalogue) In theory the idea was to frame the book in terms of a core duality of subjective and objective treatment in a way that would reproduce one of the core concerns of Lynch's art, which often explores and deconstructs that same duality. In practice it often does not really function in that way, but as is so often the case with Lynch, there is in fact a curious question of effect that lingers, where you are confronted by many pressing questions about the book's subject by virtue of this inside/outside account. Lynch also repeated his criticism of watching films on phones, saying, “I always say: people think they’ve seen a movie, but if they’ve watched it on a phone, they haven’t seen anything. It’s sad.”