Checkerboard bluenose

Checkerboard head, originally uploaded by deepwarren.

I've got strong memories of the checkerboard floor from Twin peaks. They used it in the dream sequences, and also the black and white floor in the diner. Symbolic of other lands, or other states of consciousness, it was forever in the foreground highlighting the other-world that was a small, impossibility corrupt town somewhere in small town America.

The checkerboard pattern is a stark contrast between black and white, good and evil. Evidence of a 'checkered past', it has been the 'classic' backdrop in many a crime classic, and trotted out in the crime scene photos as the ultimate backdrop to a sprawled body in the kitchen.

They are all headless to some degree. Aimless? Disembodied, disassociated perhaps.