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David Lynch Altar
Project type
Mixed Media
Date
April 2025
Location
Golden Bay New Zealand
Mixed Media
In the wake of David Lynch’s passing, an Irish-born artist living in New Zealand has channeled grief into a sprawling, ever-evolving shrine—a tactile ode to the director’s surrealist psyche, cobbled from found materials and layered with oil paint, rust, ink, and static. The structure, nestled in a fern-choked garden, is less a monument than a living collage: a cabinet of curiosities where Twin Peaks’ Red Room bleeds into Eraserhead’s industrial grime, all rendered through scavenged wood, thrift-store debris, and guerrilla art techniques.
Role
Design, build and delivery
Date
Jan - May 2025
Location
Pohara Golden Bay
videos of the development
For three months, under New Zealand’s upside-down skies, an Irish Gen X’er has been constructing a David Lynch shrine in their wild backyard garden—a Twin Peaks reliquary where decay and devotion collide. The shrine is a hand-carved cabinet of curiosities: inside, wax-melted screen prints of Laura Palmer’s fading smile share space with red-and-black linocut pines, their ink bleeding like Black Lodge static onto thrift-store book pages. Each drawer, when opened, releases a whiff of scorched coffee and diesel (ambiance essential), revealing miniature forests of nails, chevron patterns, and flickering bulbs that hum "Fire Walk With Me" in Morse code.
The artist—Áine, aka Happy Little Threes—treats Lynch’s death as a call to ritual. Her shrine rejects permanence: prints erode in the damp air, wax cracks like a TV screen losing signal, and visitors are urged to rearrange fragments, turning the act of discovery into a Lynchian plot twist. It’s punk elegy.
“Grief’s got layers. Just like good art.”
