Bood Samel

Bood Samel came into the world on January first, in year nineteen seventy nine, in the godforsaken city of horror, Philadelphia. Art for him was an automatic process, he has never not engaged in it. His interest in Satanism, magick, etc. came about during his late teens. Bood lived in squats around west Philly between the ages of 16-21.

Living the “crusty” lifestyle for him brought about an inadvertent initiatory awakening, as if removal from social norms via urban destitution was some manner of shamanic regression. Living in the neighborhoods were silly looking dred locked white kids could get away with living in abandoned builds (predominately black crack ghettos), he saw first hand the realities of ideas such as Lex Talionis, and social Darwinism, which many Satanists talk about, but rarely, if at all, have to deal with.

During this time he immersed himself in the works of Anton LaVey, and Hakim Bey, and stumbled awkwardly and often viciously through actively Appling both these renowned men’s ideas. Fortunately he was befriended by someone who was seriously involved with Thelema, and esoteric martial arts, and his presence motivated Bood to take his manner of living, and interest in the occult more seriously. So he moved away, got a job, and got his shit together, which serves an example of how occult ideas actually made someone’s life better.

His main focus is LHP oriented chaos-magick mixed with various art forms (painting, drawing, graffiti, automatic drawing, wheat pasting, and noise music), and writing. His aim is to make success for himself by integrating every aspect of himself, and what he does with himself, into a vast, dynamic, and ever-increasingly greater whole. Ego is his first art.