Maya Hawke Instagram – 🫀 With a steely determination, Maya Hawke is holding on for dear life to a tree branch when it unexpectedly snaps and she finds herself on the ground; plaid Thom Browne stockings ripped at the knee; all nearby bystanders frozen in abject horror. But faster than anyone concerned can even ask if she’s hurt, Hawke has already bounced back and is brandishing the broken branch as a newfound prop. “I’m independent / I am decisive,” sings Hawke on the title-track of her third album, ‘Chaos Angel’, and I believe her. As evidenced by today, Hawke not only does her own photoshoot stunts, she also wholeheartedly tackles everything in her professional life with the grace and self-confidence of someone who is not afraid to get her hands a little (or a lot) dirty. “It’s just how I’ve found I can make my life more enjoyable – is to care about it more,” Hawke explains, her imagination having birthed an entire ‘Chaos Angel’ mythology based around the titular character who learns that “you need change for love, and for change you need chaos.”
Over 2500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus theorised that: “There is nothing permanent except change.” And Hawke’s album ‘Chaos Angel’ expounds on this, perfectly capturing what it feels like to be alive when you have a tendency to self-sabotage (“Why do it right when you can do it yourself and give up”) but are also an over-achiever (“You walk wearily toward her / Cause you still have your arrow to retrieve”). Hawke’s latest album contains multitudes because that is what it means to be human, and that’s the true magic of Maya Hawke; scraped knees and all. Embracing vulnerability and led by her imagination, she’s just living.
𝕆𝕦𝕣 𝕟𝕖𝕨 @maya_hawke 𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕟𝕠𝕨 – 𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕚𝕟 𝕓𝕚𝕠 𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕟𝕖𝕨 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨 🪽
interview: shahlin graves
design: @lola.jacob
photography: @daniel
stylist: @lindseyhartman
make-up: @jostrettell
hair: @buddywporter
🦢 | Posted on 14/Jun/2024 05:01:16
