APPENDIX
THE EYE-OF-THE-DUCK
When you picture a duck you picture a bill, and a head, and a
neck and body and legs...the bill is a certain color and a certain length and a
certain texture. And it is completely different [from anything else on the
duck], although there is something in the color and the texture that is a
little similar to the legs of the duck and it is very important that that is
the way that is. Then the head comes up out of that...and the head comes up and
comes down into this fantastic S curve. And the feathers on the head are kind
of short and swift because it's faster, the bill and the head have to be a
faster area. It can't be very big. The head is slower, and the neck has that S
curve that lets you come down to the body. The body is kind of uneventful in a
way. It can't have too much fast area. It's a big kind of fluffy kind of smooth
area. And then it has these more complicated textures in the feet. And the
texture is reminiscent of the bill and it returns back to the bill and makes
this trip. The eye wants to go down the S curve and it gets to the feet and it
makes the whole trip.
David Lynch
In The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in
Hollywood, Martha Nochimson, Texas University Press, 1997, p.25.
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