David Lynch Was an Oracle

David Lynch , sui generis, eluded comparison.

He started out as a painter, a visual artist who loved best what the hands could make and the eye could see.

Lynch famously refused to explain his movies, and even the most famous phrases functioned like images instead of words— they had effects rather than meanings.

For Lynch , these glimpses of disorder, violence, and decay didn’t invalidate or overturn his own boyhood happiness.

For the rest of his life, he would identify as an Eagle Scout while making movies that peered into abysses that felt more bottomless than anyone else’s.

You could always feel that in his best work, for all its abundant idiosyncrasies: the shudder of forces bigger than any one person.