My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
Caio FonsecaWhen I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
Caio FonsecaAll my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
Caio FonsecaPainting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
Caio FonsecaMy forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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