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: (In progress): What is wrong, young pretty girl?

(In progress): One of the most memorable (and funny and surreal) scenes from the Pilot,  in which a bored and attention-seeking Audrey lets slip to the Norwegians, that her "friend Laura was found face down on a rocky beach, completely naked....she'd been murdered."

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.


 

Dailies: "That Scene in the Twin Peaks Pilot with Laura Palmer in Disguise"

There, I've gone and given it away. It's a fun piece of trivia, though, especially since Sheryl Lee was playing a dead girl, the tragic Laura Palmer, that she should turn up alive, wigged and padded and bespectacled as the clerk at the bank who takes Agent Cooper and Sheriff Truman to Laura's safety deposit box.
It's a foreshadowing of Madeleine Ferguson, Laura's identical cousin.
When Cooper and Truman glance at the deer head on the table, without a beat she says, "It fell down." I'm not a fan of taxidermy, but I love that the deer looks like it's eavesdropping on the conference.