Women's Dream 

Curator: David Lynch's mixed-media piece, "Women's Dream," draws us into an utterly enigmatic world. What's your take on it? Editor: Immediately, the monochrome palette and clunky textures evoke something…industrial and a little unsettling. It's not a dreamscape of fluffy clouds, that's for sure. Curator: No, it feels more like a dream salvaged from a scrapyard. The textures are compelling. There's a clear emphasis on physicality. What exactly is going on with those miniature figures? Is that a nude man in a building on the left, and then is that the hanging baby giraffe on the right? Editor: Exactly! Lynch juxtaposes these disparate elements, creating this eerie contrast, with a definite Surrealist leaning. We have watercolor, photography, and sculptural components that build up that rough facade. Are we looking at a societal critique or some internal turmoil? Curator: Perhaps it’s both? I think Lynch taps into something deeply subconscious with those sharp contrasts, even jarring pairings. Like that rough black chasm. Editor: Yes, this base. Look at the layers, you can see each added layer, stroke of paint or addition and how he builds up the weight of the black below and the use of grey. It looks so worked and raw. A tangible anxiety made concrete with materials and craft. How do these various material components change your interpretation? Curator: Good question. I'd say the materials, or rather how they are manipulated, enhances this overall sensation. The roughness almost protects this dream…making it harder to enter. Editor: Right, it becomes a closed system. We’re on the outside looking into someone's highly private psychic theater constructed from the detritus of lived experience and repurposed industry. Ultimately it is a mixed-media comment on a material, mechanical, manufactured existence! It is Lynch! Curator: Indeed! A strangely poignant, yet bewildering commentary—dream or nightmare; hard to say.