Karl Hunter

Forty-five

Let youth cease to serve as a commodity merely to become the consumer of its own elan.

Isidore Isou 1950

...Hip is American existentialism, based on a mysticism of the flesh, and its origins can be traced back into all the undercurrents and underworlds of American life…

Norman Mailer 1956

It was that the life portrayed in these catalogs seemed irresistible. Something about my frame of mind made me love the abundance of the purely ordinary and pseudo-exotic (which always turns out ordinary if you go the distance and place your order). I loved the idea of merchandise, and I loved those ordinary good American faces pictured there, people wearing their asbestos welding aprons, holding their cane fishing rods…In me it fostered an odd assurance that some things outside my life were okay still; that the same men and women standing by the familiar brick fireplaces, or by the same comfortable canopy beds, holding these same shotguns or blow poles or boot warmers or boxes of kindling sticks could see a good day before their eyes into perpetuity. Things were knowable, safe-and-sound. Everybody with exactly what they need or could get. A perfect illustration of how the literal could become the mildly mysterious… And that was quite enough for me, or for any man trying to get on a better, straighter track, trying to see the brighter side of things and put an end to his dreaminess.

Richard Ford, The Sportswriter 1987

Education

NCAD, BA in Fine Art and Art History 1998-2002