This was so good. Thank you for this thoughtful, wise, and important critique of Kissick, and also just an immensely beautiful essay, in all of its movements, too.
Ha! Can't speak to DK's motivations, but I was not very interested in his primary argument (the whole identity-derivative art thing has been debated for some time now, no?). The fracturing of consensus reality on the other hand...
After I published this, I read an interview with the photographer Jeff Wall that would've made for a great footnote on this topic. Wall discussed art-making as a morality and an ethic: "Artistic, creative work allows people to realize their aims in an emancipated way that could be useful in understanding how to do other things... [an ethic that] can be detached from art and applied to other purposes," i.e. transferrable to other forms of social engagement.
Thank you! Not that I (or any viewer, for that matter) can claim to understand what Lynch's movies are actually about, but something about Lost Highway "made sense" to me about his thematic preoccupations.
This was so good. Thank you for this thoughtful, wise, and important critique of Kissick, and also just an immensely beautiful essay, in all of its movements, too.
Thank you Cameron!
Has Dean Kissick always been a slippery troll? His whole thing feels a little insincere
Ha! Can't speak to DK's motivations, but I was not very interested in his primary argument (the whole identity-derivative art thing has been debated for some time now, no?). The fracturing of consensus reality on the other hand...
terry this is so, so good
Thank you 🥺!!
enjoyed the thoughts on role of art in these times and violence of art deployed against violence of reality!
Thank you Nicole!
After I published this, I read an interview with the photographer Jeff Wall that would've made for a great footnote on this topic. Wall discussed art-making as a morality and an ethic: "Artistic, creative work allows people to realize their aims in an emancipated way that could be useful in understanding how to do other things... [an ethic that] can be detached from art and applied to other purposes," i.e. transferrable to other forms of social engagement.
Really excellent Lost Highway analysis.
Thank you! Not that I (or any viewer, for that matter) can claim to understand what Lynch's movies are actually about, but something about Lost Highway "made sense" to me about his thematic preoccupations.
Loved this