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An interview with Mark Frost from 'Twin Peaks The Return' podcast
I'm a big Twin Peaks fan and even more so since the new season has aired 25 years since the last episode, and we touch base with the concepts, themes, characters and world as they would be 25 years later - it's absolutely fascinating and thought provoking to see our world reflected through this TV show in such an expanse of time.
One thing I'm also enjoying is listening to two podcasts of people discussing the show, episode by episode and this is one of them. In this episode Andy interviews Mark Frost, the co-writer who works with David Lynch on the show.
In this interview, without revealing details about the actual show, I found Mark Frost shares a lot of views and experiences of creativity that I do. Specifically, that once an artist (or writer, or musician, or director) has created a work they no longer have control of its meaning no matter what. It takes on its own life and intertwines with the experience of the viewer who ultimately creates her own connection to it.
It's always surprised me that a lot of people don't understand this about a work. Often people search for a literal meaning in a work or try to uncover "exactly" what the artists was to say. Studying the social or political context of a work, themes present in a series and so on is an integral part of understanding an artists intent, and deepening our own understanding but still we will only ever have our own relationship to it.
Mark Frost also goes on to discuss some political and social observations of our time and hints at their relationship to those present in Twin Peaks.
Excellent stuff.