To anyone else who felt the devastating loss of @DAVID_LYNCH this week, Special Agent Dale Copper himself (Kyle MacLachlan) wrote a beautiful essay in the @nytimes about his long-time friend. RIP to a true artist. https://t.co/Ea9YuXHgk3
— John Anthony (@JAnthonywrites) January 19, 2025
Kyle MacLachlan wrote a beautiful tribute to David Lynch for the NY Times.
Some excerpts:
• “No, I didn’t always understand what we were making. Sometimes I’d get a sense of it, and then like on a breeze, it was gone. Other times it seemed to exist on a plane that I wanted to reach but couldn’t quite articulate. But eventually, I realized it didn’t matter. […] He loved connecting with people, meeting them where they were, sharing time or space or consciousness. It’s just that explaining his art after the fact seemed antithetical to the very point of making it.”
• “David didn’t fully trust words because they pinned the idea in place. They were a one-way channel that didn’t allow for the receiver. And he was all about the receiver.”
• “When you are outside language, you are in the realm of feeling, the unconscious, waves. That was David’s world. Because there’s room for other people — as the listeners, the audience, the other end of the line — to bring some of themselves. To David, what you thought mattered, too.”
I wholly recommend reading the entire essay, it’s a beautiful tribute to a unique mind from a collaborator who loved him.
