WHAT PROGRESS | CHRIS DORLAND

FEATURE INTERVIEW IN CURATOR | MUSIC/SOUND BY LEON LOUDER
"I STILL BELIEVE IN THE POSITIVE ENERGY OF SUBLIMATION OR TURNING PRIMAL URGES LIKE GREED, STEALING, MURDER, ETC., INTO CULTURE OR SOMETHING CIVILIZED, LIKE PHILANTHROPY, S&M, PAINTING, AND LEGAL JUSTICE AT THEIR BEST. LAST MONTH, I DID A WEB SEARCH FOR EROS. I HAPPENED UPON THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINITION WITH AN ENTRY THAT READ, "EROS IS THE SUM OF LIFE-PRESERVING INSTINCTS MANIFESTED AS IMPULSES TO GRATIFY BASIC NEEDS, AS SUBLIMATED IMPULSES, AND AS IMPULSES TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE BODY AND MIND. COMPARE DEATH INSTINCT". THAT WAS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL MOMENT, OR ANOTHER CLICHÉ, THAT LOVE IS THE CURE." – S.A.

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