David Lynch prioritized visual art alongside filmmaking, producing provocative mixed-media works throughout his life. He created infamous “kits” in the late 1970s and early 1980s that incorporated parts of dissected animals pinned to boards with childlike reassembly instructions. He considered a mouse kit and repeatedly used unexpected materials—dead bees, cigarette ashes, and found objects—in later artworks. Lynch built props for Eraserhead and maintained eccentric collections, including five stuffed Woody Woodpecker dolls he named and kept for their comforting aura, though he ultimately parted with them when they exhibited unpleasant traits. He was also approached to direct Return of the Jedi.
David Lynch has your number. But does it add up? Later he would tell an interviewer that he was in the early stages of planning a mouse kit, with the requisite parts bagged up in his freezer. Sadly, this never came to pass, but Lynch would continue to use unusual objects from dead bees to cigarette ashes in his artworks over the coming decades.
In 1981, Lynch was driving past a gas station on Sunset Boulevard when he noticed five stuffed Woody Woodpecker dolls hanging from a hook in the window. Executing a sharp U-turn, he went in to buy them. Naming them Bob, Dan, Pete, Buster and Chucko, he would keep them in his office, to make him happy. These guys aren't just a bunch of goofballs, he would insist.
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