The work above speaks for itself regarding the Transcendental style of Lynch and gives a better sense of it as a philosophy, a philosophy that prefers to be art and aesthetic rather - toward the end an art piece by lynch called "Fish kit" is mentioned. A dead, dissected cut up fish on display.
It reminds me of a saying " When you draw the the (deep sea) fish up from the depths, it looses its form".
If you try to pull a deep sea anglerfish up to the surface, one will see only a bewildering and hideous blob of a creature unlike its living self. In essence, the physical environment of such a deep sea monster is an essential part of its nature.
One MAY understand the fish in fish kit better- but the fish is dead, never to be reassembled.
Neoliberal conceptions of highly organized, rationalized, creedal and categorized knowledge are seen by lynch as .. tools at the very most, perhaps obscuring more than they can reveal. They can open one door and close another. Its practitioners can miss the living forest for the tiny details of the twigs - they mistake categorization for understanding- abstracted labels are utilized to, as Mcluhan put it, make rapid guesses and decisions.
I first ran into this mode of transcendental thinking in art and architecture. I feel it looses its texture with out being constantly accessed in that way- as poetry, vision, image, music, sounds, expressions - trying to describe it in pure abstraction it often makes no sense - like trying to make some one taste steak with words, it gets super challenging to understand it outside of its aesthetic context. Its a creative practice - that focuses on externalizing a complex and holistic vision.
