Maya Hawke Instagram – ❤️🔥 “In my fictitious heaven (without a religious connotation), there’s a school for angels where they teach you how to be different kinds of angels – Angel of War, Angel of Love, Angel of whatever – and she was trained to be an Angel of Love. I see it as a slight allegory for how so many women are raised to believe that their primary goal in life is to find love, make love, make people happy, and make people feel good – so she was raised that way. And then she comes down to earth and it’s like, ‘Whoah, I can’t wait to be an angel, I’m gonna be the best one ever, it’s gonna be great.’
At first, it starts to go well, but then the love that she’s trying to create ends up totally chaotic and a mess. She’s surrounded by destruction everywhere she turns, and then she runs away because she’s just so ashamed of all the chaos that she’s created, and gets angry: ‘I’m the worst angel ever; I hate myself… Why was I even raised to be an Angel of Love? I’m the Angel of Chaos, I’m an Angel of War… Why was I told that I was an Angel of Love? This is so stupid.’ So she gathered her things to go back up to heaven and tell her teachers that they were wrong to put her in the love school and that she should have been a War Angel, and to give them a piece of her mind.
But as she retraces her steps, she sees that in all the places that she thought she’d made chaos, all of a sudden, beauty was growing up from the ashes of what she’d done – more beautiful than anything that had been there before. And that gets to what you said, which is that chaos is the necessary ingredient for change, and change is the necessary ingredient for love. Which makes every Chaos Angel actually an Angel of Love and vice versa. So she kind of comes to terms with being The Chaos Angel, but that chaos is love, and there’s beauty in there too.”
Illustrated by @ashleysetiawan 👩🎨
Narrated by @maya_hawke 🪽
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