Interview: Sharon
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CM: What current artists are you interested in?
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Sharon
Knight: Well,
I love Harry Potter to be frank, I am so inspired by J.K. Rowling's
story telling and her whole mythology that she
has created. She's probably the artist I'm most inspired
by right now. I just feel like she's created a mythical dimension
for Witches in the modern age and has allowed us, she brought
us into the mainstream and it just makes me feel like we're
allowed to exist on a whole new level, and I am just so thankful
for her. And that inner landscape she creates is probably
as
close to mine as any other story I've ever read. So she's
got the number one spot right now. Then there's the more obvious
answers, musical influences like Loreena McKennitt, and Dead
Can Dance. I'm really into Scandanavian music right now,
there's
a band called Hedningarna that I just love. Its kind of similar
to Celtic music except more stark and twisted [laughs]. And
I've been inspired by Suhaila Salimpour as a belly dancer for
years.
CM: What are you
discovering right now? What is currently inspiring to you and
what is drawing you forward?
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Sharon Knight: I am really re-inspired by
magick right now, with Celtic leanings. I am very drawn to
my ancestral myths, in a renewed
sort of a way.
As you can probably tell from this interview, I've been influenced
by Buddhism and Tantra and Middle Eastern culture as well.
But right now I am way into the archetypes and myths of the Celtic
folk soul. So I'm very interested in recreating Bardic magick
and how to run that through the music we make and how that
pertains;
what do modern Bardic Witches practice. So [I'm] working with
that energy a lot, the cauldron of inspiration and what comes
out
of that is
very juicy for me these days.
CM: Is there anything that you'd like to leave
Crescent readers with, anything you want to say, or any point that
you'd like to
make?
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Sharon Knight: Yes, actually. If there is one
thing that I want to share that is really important to me, it is
why I am so committed to
magick
and why I would say it's the driving force behind everything
else I do, dance, music, even work. Everything is about bringing
more
magick to the world. In a selfish way it is because I am lonely
[laughs] — I want there to be more magickal people in the world.
I feel that those of us who do have a magickal dimension to our
psyches, we tend to see perhaps a little bit farther than the
average person. We can see subtle energies that maybe everyone
can't see
from plants, we can see into deep space. So there is a very
visionary aspect to who we are and I believe it is our job to reflect
that
to the world. I believe that all humans are evolving this expanded
perception and that we owe it to each other to help each other.
So if we are already seeing those expanded perceptions, we need
to create those dimensions, we need to make sense of what we
see in ways that appeal to the senses. Like with music and lyrics
that create imagery or a dance that is passionate. We can convey
that extended sense of self and people will understand it through
art, and hopefully they will click on their own magick. I also
would go so far as to say that its essential that we develop
these
expanded senses because its going to help us figure out how to
evolve a more sustainable life style. Because we're going to
perceive that we're all interconnected with each other and the
earth. It's
a more far reaching way of seeing and using our energy. It is
going to give us more tools to create a more harmonious life. And
we
have to do that or we'll die.
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