Lynch was drawn to the natural light of Los Angeles and, in turn, drew fans to him with his light shown from within.

In the late filmmaker's work, the fantastic commingled with the banal, the world of dreams and fantasy perpetually encroached on the waking mind.

who covers her in blue light and takes her pain away. She starts crying, then laughing, a smile of relief spreading across her face. David Lynch has passed through the darkness, and into the light.