Casino Series
NOTE:
The Casino Series started as a project for a book of drawings exploring issues of identity, love and friendship using an alternative reality as the setting. As it grows Casino merges the concepts of identity, love and friendship explored in the initial drawings with the need to include and explore issues of individuality, struggle happiness and freedom, subjects that we deal with every day in this shared reality called life on Earth.
Initial artist's statement for the early drawings:
Introduction:
The images you see here, come from the memories book of Memo and Martha, two spirits that live in a parallel dimension named Casino. Casino lies beyond the rainbow, close to Dorothy’s Oz, and not too far off from our own reality. You can reach Casino by flying in a magical balloon piloted by the powerful Mage Anuu, or by looking at these memories. The latter works only if you want to.
In Casino life is joy, because their motivation is love. Memo and Martha agreed to share these memories of Casino with you, not as an act of vanity, but in hope that their experiences may entertain you, lift your spirit, bring up a smile. As you enter their dimension, Memo and Martha don’t mind if you become them and they become you. But if you insist on remaining yourself while traveling here, that’s ok too.
Any comparison to a specific group in our reality is purely coincidental, indeed.
Guillermo Hinojosa-Canales