<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06558345-c479-4754-b7c8-a562647c7741/7DDC9108-6417-42CA-BC5B-09B206E43523/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/possibility-of-secret-passageways.html" href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/possibility-of-secret-passageways.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bldgblog.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/possibility-of-secret-passageways.html"><DIV><B>BLDGBLOG</B>: First, on the most basic level, could you talk about what makes a landscape "Gothic"? Is it the weather, the landforms, the isolation, the plantlife…? Further, in your own work, what is it, on a psychological level, that unites, say, the crooked and leafless trees of the British moors with the coastal swamps of Honduras? </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/possibility-of-secret-passageways.html"><DIV>I’m thinking of what David Lynch did in <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http:%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBlue-Velvet-Special-Isabella-Rossellini%2Fdp%2FB000063JDE&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" linkindex="1061" asin="B000063JDE&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" bluekey="" bluelink="yes"><I>Blue Velvet</I></A><IMG align="top" class="blue-icon-launcher" id="smartLink6" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/bookmark_12.gif" blueamazonid="bldgblog-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" blueimage="http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/bookmark_12.gif" blueimageover="http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/icon_14.gif" bluekey="" link="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http:%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBlue-Velvet-Special-Isabella-Rossellini%2Fdp%2FB000063JDE&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" smartlink="" />, with a scene of apparent utter normality. Think of the opening scene where a man is watering his garden and everything seems, well, <I>perfect</I> in that neat and orderly suburban way and yet his camera then goes beneath the grass and we see all sorts of forms of life that are slimy and grotesque and that aren’t apparent in that hygienic world above. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/possibility-of-secret-passageways.html"><DIV>So there may be something in that: the suburb as the most Gothic of sites. Think of the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5157819" linkindex="1062">work</A>, say, of <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson" linkindex="1063">Gregory</A> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/4589/gregory-crewdson.html" linkindex="1064" set="yes">Crewdson</A>.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7DDC9108-6417-42CA-BC5B-09B206E43523/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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