DEREK HUNTER in "LOVE CHAOS" PRAGMAGICK #16
SLITHER HITHER WIERDOS & WITCHES, on this episode of the PRAGMAGICK Cast...
LOVE CHAOS creator, sound artist, writer and inventor of the unique CHAOS RIDDLE PROSE, DEREK HUNTER, chats about the creation of LOVE CHAOS and how that's informed his own folklore as a counselor, father, and unrelenting creative force...
"All aspects to Hunter's work is inter-connected to one another, through his philosophy of Love Chaos. Each separate part though - a book, an album, the tarot, Love Chaos itself - can be appreciated and enjoyed separately." - love-chaos.com
EPISODE TOPICS:
John Cassavetes
An Artist's Folklore
The Need for Service
LOVE CHAOS
Review of Hunter's Work
Drugs / Hard Pasts
CHAOS RIDDLE PROSE
TAROT & AUDIOMANCY
EPISODE REMARKS:
I feel every episode I grow closer to defining PRAGMAGICK as a philosophy–an aim to document and/or apply metaphysical concepts as a means to alter and progress our shared somatic reality via personal transformation or creative expression. But I'm finding that simply means gleaning and learning from the personal folklore specific to each guest. So, my initial idea maybe simple in my head, but becomes lost in that wordy definition... That's when it becomes even simpler: To Document The Folklores Specific to My Favorite Artists and Thinkers. Right? Close, and in any case, simplification is surely something I could learn from DEREK HUNTER and his philosophy of LOVE CHAOS. You see, the only consistency I've found in this PRAGMAGICK "mystery school" or personal "audio grimoire"–the only TETHER that is so glaringly obvious within each guest, and with me personally, is the drive to cultivate or create a personal folklore that helps. Our unique mythologies are our means of communicating how we see the world, creator or not, and no matter our disparate artistic paths, we all share the want to accentuate this shared reality with our personal narratives. It's more so than just the "What does it all mean?" quandary, it's more pragmatically driven, it's "Where do you need me?" and "What can I do to help?" –because we care to utilize these personal narratives, not just understand them. And with that, Derek Hunter is something of an anomaly, he not only fervently creates works of fiction and sound art, but he also applies his unique folklore in exceedingly humanitarian ways–something seldom found within this wholly self-centered realm of the metaphysical arts. He's managed to turn his own redemption arc, a destructive past we both share, and evolve it into a philosophy, a methodology, that anchors the whims and wonders of the creative mind in a beautifully simple resolve: LOVE CHAOS. He's one of the few that has the day-to-day application of metaphysical means transposed from his own creative work to his miracle work of counseling ex-addicts and inmates and I couldn't have been more excited to hear about how his once troubled past transformed him into a light as a father and for society's disenchanted and destitute. And how it informed his artistic folklore of LOVE CHAOS
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