The Artist As A Young Man

“We find the Artist-Magician to be an essential figure in the modern era, the shaman not entirely embraced by the tribe. Reason, repression and control still abound in the form of Archons who, equating change with destruction and having no awareness of life beyond their isolate form, wield massive weaponry against the unkillable spirit pulsing at the heart of life. Thus arises the Gnostic vision of a World-Prison from which one must escape.

 

“Escape, however, is not found by rejecting the world. Instead, the Artist-Magician makes use of the creative means at his disposal to enter more deeply into the situation, stirring up and ultimately liberating the Light which has been overshadowed…”

Kyle Fite from Hoodoo Pilot.