When I get inspired, I feel like I can do almost anything.
“The thing I have not achieved,” explains Casey, “is something that cannot be achieved: Not ever being complacent.”
I feel like a huge percentage of one’s education comes from community and being humbled by the talent of other artists.
I believe that artists spend their lives wrestling with themselves and with their work to fulfill an ideal, a vision.
I like to attack the canvas head on, work with it, not on it, and draw meanings from materials in the process. It’s alchemy.
The Incas in South America believe in Pachamama as the great creator. Mother Nature is the underrated artist to us human beings, especially to me. She is like all the artists and common artisans who quietly work, inspiring others.
Q: What is the longest time you went without creating art?
A: Never.
Art has great potential and risk. I believe, as I am an immigrant, that risk and hope are part of my DNA.
I don’t think I will ever achieve everything that I want because, after I achieve one goal, I always find a new one.
To say “my practice” implies a continuum that may be of an ordinary routine. For me, art is not that. It is not a day job. It goes beyond that, and the art produced should, too.