>>3685180I take inspiration from him and Cindy Sherman's early stuff. What I prefer about Cindy Sherman is how she takes mundane mise-en-scene; commonplace locales like hotels, domestic kitchens, etc., and combines them with what she considered an homage to cinematic presentation, to make images that are plastic and alienating without being obviously grotesque. I'd very much like to emulate that emotion. I don't have a name for it, so I've been calling it "alienation of the mundane" or "banal alienaton". It's a tricky feeling to evoke. Lynch goes there a lot, himself- like in Blue Velvet, where the seedy hotel, which isn't shown as particularly dirty or irregular in its design, spooks the shit out of you. There's something about the re-articulation of regular-looking people, everyday life, the places we live and occupy, as subtly, implacably grotesque, without leveraging something cheap like gore, the extremely bizarre (intentionally irregular geometry), or implicit danger (fire, explosions), that really gets me off.
