Dailies: Liminal Spaces: Agent Cooper and Donna Heyward

2010. Graphite on watercolor paper (moleskine journal)

I am fascinated with layers of memory, the overlap of action, and inspired by the lag/delay in a television picture, where if you take a photograph of the screen, you can catch the shift as it happens (here, in the Twin Peaks pilot).

Dailies: "That Video Footage of Laura and Donna"

It would have been a fun extra on the Twin Peaks box set, that footage that Donna claimed was taken by an unknown woman hiker (who was really good guy/biker James Hurley).  In the video, Donna and Laura goof around and act exactly like a couple of teenage girls, which seems to be important at first only because Laura is alive in the video (I can think of only one straight out flashback: when Laura gives half of her heart necklace to James.  Laura was usually seen and heard though indirect means, like  this video, the homecoming portrait, and the audio tapes made for Doctor Jacoby) though later Cooper is able to extract a clue in the Harley Davidson reflected in an extreme closeup of Laura's eye.  "Looks like a hog to me."

Dailies: "Agent Cooper/Gary Cooper"

David Lynch likes to have fun with naming his characters. Sheriff Harry S. Truman.  Dale Cooper: D.B. Cooper: (and as Dr. Jacoby mistakenly assumes) Gary Cooper.  I had the Gary Cooper stamps lying around (they were from a scholarship application envelope at work) and pasted them into my moleskine on a whim, not knowing what composition would evolve.  I remembered the scene, played around with it, and  this is what occurred.