EnTactus

Artist Statement

EnTactus

"To Touch Within"

"The artist job, fundamentally, is not to seek inspiration and express it, it is to guide others to it. Artistic expression is but a beacon to inspiration."
-Casey J. Wullner

The creative expressions of Casey span throughout his life manifested in both the cohesive paved in skin series he's most known for, and expandihng into a wide diversity of masterful creative expressions. The paved in skin series features primarily feminine divine portraiture. Using a self-developed mixed media technique, Casey combines acrylic, India ink and concrete patch in an entirely unique way that contrast the precision and softness of feminine figures against the hard and coarse paved surface.
What motivates me most is inspiring others to pursue their own potential and then begin to realize it. To create alone is reward enough but to see my own creations inspire others to create, to help them see in themselves their own greater potential is what drives me to realize my own.
What is EnTactus? Literally, it is a combination of Greek and Latin words meaning "to touch within." At a glance it is thought to refer to the creative expressions of Casey. It is the sum of all he has created and all he will create, but to Casey however, EnTactus is so much more . It is the creative force shared by us all. It's the energy by which all things are created. It is the substrate of reality and on it we can but create. EnTactus is a conscious effort to manifest the subconscious into reality. It is the understanding that reality is but what we create collectively.
EnTactus is an invitation. An invitation to create. Each of us must decide for ourselves how best we might manifest our dreams and we manifest them whether we consciously decide to or not. The invitation is but to do so with intent. The world is as we have made it. Our choice in it is to accept it as it is, for all its beauty and its horrors, or to consciously contribute more to its beauty. Its not simply an invitation to create art as I do, or even to create art at all .
EnTactus is an invitation to actively manifest beauty into the world and to work toward building a more beautiful world, what ever that might mean to you. It is an invitation to better yourself, however you might chose to do so so that you might be better equipped to better the world. It is an invitation to invest your time, your resources and your efforts into manifesting and into the things manifesting a more perfect world. Though perfection is not attainable, the conscious pursuit of it brings us to it most near.

Biography

I understand myself to be nothing more than a creative energy that exists in the world. The attempt to write my own biography is a goal so unsurmountable to me because to me it would be a biography of the world. My life is all I've ever known, or at least all that I can recall, and no effort of mine to put everything I've ever known into meaningful and coherent words has failed countless times. Every attempt has fallen unbelievably short, and I understand why. Because I'm still writing it. Because I'm still creating it and I'm perfectly content with that.

If the work you see before you today is not enough to make you care to learn more about me and my past/future work, it's not of my concern. Nothing I can say here about my accomplishments will make you care in a way that I have any interest in encouraging. I've accomplished plenty, I've created plenty and I'm far from done. I've spent long enough chasing others cares to learn its not a thing I get to create, but a byproduct of the Me I choose to create.

Exhibition History (CV)