It was real frightening." He lived in poverty with his wife and infant daughter; when he needed room for a painter's studio, he could only afford to buy a house in a slum. "The bricks [of the house] might as well have been paper," Lynch told
Rolling Stone's Henry Bromell. "The feeling was so close to extreme danger, and the fear was so intense. A kid was shot and killed half a block away. Our house was broken into three times. There was violence and hate and filth." Lynch, Combs surmised, "relates the two halves of his experience . . . in terms of a collision of opposites with no internal coherence or connection at all." This view of life, Combs suggested, has in turn affected Lynch's vision as an artist. Vulnerability and decay are recurrent themes in Lynch's work; his characters are often afflicted with disease, deformity, or psychological torment. Lloyd Rose of
Atlantic Monthly called Lynch's work "tumoresque" and surmised that the "underlying theme . . . is that you can't trust the flesh."
From Painting to Film
Lynch's interest in film stemmed from his painting.
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