Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Edgar Cano. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Edgar, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What do you think matters most in terms of achieving success?

I understand the success in a different way that I think most people do, I try to understand the success as satisfying moments when, for example, I wake up, or go to the bed completely and still alive, and When I have done some task by the end of the day, but very well done, or part of. Also, I think being successful, it’s meaning when you have a good relationship between you and your immediate context, nature, family, friends, and society.
I believe success means how you handle the day by day, using your creativity and energy to get focused on your work or goals, I’m pretty sure every moment when we enjoy, read, see or learn something new this becomes in success and knowledge, also, to me, success is a place where I discover myself in a completely calm and complete.
I feel successful when often my mind and desires spark it a new flame of curiosity.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I come from an enchanted land where green lies and the magic exists, but it’s not spelled. I come from the Veracruz’s south. At 2020, I came to the US to pursue a Master Degree at the Northwestern State University of Louisiana. My beginning on arts, was creating theatre backstage and book illustrations, during my college at Art Faculty, those days I started to participate in group exhibitions and solo shows as well.
Currently I’m over 20 years of experience, working in lithography, drawings and paintings, I was showing my artworks in Mexico, Serbia, Italy, England, Argentina, Japan, Sweden, Canada, and the USA.
I was distinguished from several contests, competitions, biennials, grants in Mexico and overseas. Currently, I’m recipient twice by the National System of Art Creators from Mexico (SNCA).
Regarding my artwork: The painting that I do is interested, simultaneously, in its own process and in the events of daily life, reinterpreted from personal experience. This expands, juxtaposes, amplifies or accentuates them in order to create different evocations and a kind of point of convergence in which the author, the spectator, their memory and imagination and all or some segment of society will have to locate themselves. The axis, always figurative, but also recreated and complex, is the body, which is deposited on the canvas and configures narratives or correlates that combine reality and fiction until establishing a logic that intentionally dilutes objectivity and that, in turn, builds, a metaphor.
I use to create personal projects to show at exhibitions in galleries, museums and cultural public spaces as well, my arts are collected during years for many institutions privates and public.
I believed in the uniqueness, in the value of the quality and the originality.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Probably the most exciting reward regarding my art will be the possibility to stay at the time, as a legacy or collection, or even as an art institution, where the most important part will be, throughout my art, joins between peers, viewers, collectors, art curators, galleries, and overall society. The position an artist has been given by society is something that already looks rewarding, as stated by Anthony Julius. As an artist, it’s a responsibility to build knowledge and overall thoughts.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

At the beginning of my career, I even don’t believe about the possibility to be an artist, just I want to draw and paint, I remember when I started to be interested in the arts, the truth arts, I applied three times for college. I spent on this at least four years, working in many different jobs, but at the end of the third time I had apply I get it. Of course, I enjoyed all the others things that I did, I learned a lot, but just arts give to me the key to satisfaction and completion. I remember when I started college I was the older one, mostly students had been graduating at my age.
At that time I already had my plans done, I said if I didn’t get the college the next step will be cross illegally the border and works in the U.S. Fortunately I hit the college, and years later, I had been through different countries, places other than the U.S. Showing my arts, too, learn and gain new experiences and understand my country in a larger perspective.