Jose Cano is a Mexican-American mixed media artist focused on music, visual production and articulating personalized thought into reoccurring themes in everyday life. Starting with dance at age 17, Jose has grown to play music, and indulged in photography themed "casual everyday, life and home.” His project with Open MFA will be capturing the essence of life and death and the in between

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"Taken at one of the first house show's I've been at. I feel like it really captured how excited I was about it. Drummer unknown and band unknown.”

“Sometimes I play around in my head when I see kids - I wonder if they think the same thoughts we do or if they feel with the same intensity and are unaware of it.”

“I actively left home to go here. The pictures were taken with a new lens I picked up over there. So I feel like I decided to try my best to look at life differently - even in the physical sense.”

1)Strength in Numbers, hand-cut collage (1/3). This piece is related to wants, problems and situations connecting humanity. “These were really fun to make and each one led me to a meditative state where the pieces kind of just came together.”

2) Road to Wealth, hand-cut collage (2/3). This piece is related to wants, problems and situations connecting humanity.

3) People Food, hand-cut collage (3/3). This piece is related to wants, problems and situations connecting humanity.