Unraveling Secrets: Benjamin Hale on the Mysterious Disappearance That Haunts the Ozarks
LL: I resonated, in some ways, with this statement in Cave Mountain: “To make art at all is to commit the sin of pride. A work of art is a volley in the artist’s war against death, and any attempt to vanquish death other than through the way into Heaven offered by faith is war against God.” I make art. I write. I consider myself a creative person, but not a prideful person. And I feel that these creative gifts are just that — something bestowed onto me from a higher being. So is it pride? Or something else?
