Casey Hallas Terminal Uniqueness

Casey Hallas Terminal Uniqueness
an Exhibition of Paintings from the American West
Private Showing
Saturday March 28, 5-10PM
Folk Set, 7PM
Public Exhibition
Saturday April 5, 12-10 PM
Dance Party, 8-10PM
The Relic Refinery
321 Main St. Plattsmouth, NE
Casey Hallas is a painter, video artist, musician and social theorist from Quincy, IL. He now resides in Omaha. Casey encodes his life story and philosophy into artifacts to share with his community. “Creativity is spirituality, a symbolic practice, and an act of peace.” After a career as a production artist and project manager creating scenery using printed textiles – Casey produced his first group of paintings and prints in Boise, ID between 2016-2019. “The theme of my show is the paradoxical nature of the value of art, trauma, and power in American Society.” Descriptive cartouches decode the paintings’ meaning for his revered audience with reproductions available through Infinite Tapestry Co. – a media label and website founded in 2019. “I hope you enjoy confronting complex realities of masculinity with me through storytelling and the beauty of painting, when originals and man-sized reproductions can be seen side by side.” A feature film about the work will also be produced with help from documentarian Joshua LeBure.

Casey Hallas (2019) Boise Foothills in Spring [Acrylic on textile collage]
Uncle John’s Records

When I need somewhere to go, I go to Ithaca.
Safety First (Radio Edit)

Video for Sam Saunders – B Minor (Sidewinder)
The Love Idea
Everything is named;
All styles and everything
We put into a box.
Every study has a name; this style suck, end;
The pleasures on the inside mind, body, bank.
Now when you go out looking
I’ll tell you what you’ll find;
The bullshit train, the trashcans full.
You’ll hear all the voices, all the noisy teachers,
No one teaches Truth.
So what you going to do?
Gonna be a better man,
Gonna be a kinder friend.
It’s like the rebel said –
What would be your will
If you could own the world?
Now if we lived in public everyone could learn.
We could watch the sacred puppets try to be
The men.
Personal crusader spiders went out weaving,
Spiders weaving Christ. The players at the turnstyle
Trade suicide for brawn; a name is on the can.
So what you going to do?
Gonna be a better man,
Gonna be a kinder friend.
It’s like the rebel said –
What would be your will
If you could own the world?
And words like line and line like song.
You must know the price, that choosing is the life.
Ask for simple pieces and hope for better ones;
Get lost in Babylon until you find the love.
Saluting to the tribe, grumpy men with wives,
I ride a bike.
So what you going to do?
gonna be a better man
gonna be a kinder friend
It’s like the rebels said –
What would be your will
If you could own the world?
That’s the Love Idea, ye-ah,
That’s the Love Idea.
Stay Here With Me
Summer, I know, is pushing the roses;
When cut from the earth
They’re not meant to last.
I am a sign, I am a road.
You must be seeing to know where I go.
Stay here with me, please;
Stay here with me.
I am suspicious that nobody hears
No matter how hard I pray –
It’s not what I need.
You are my garden, you are my heart.
What can I tell you
Now that you know?
Stay here with me, please;
Stay here with me.
Here we are one,
Here we are one.
You’re kind. That mind!
You say things, your feelings.
I’ve been here some time –
Just wishing someone needs me.
Stay here with me, please;
Stay here with me.
Here we are one,
Here we are one.
Here we are one…
Here we are one.
Fate

The Love Idea Final Production Notes

In 2006 an artist living in Brooklyn spends his life savings to create a concept album, an emo-musical called The Love Idea. When it’s finally released 17 years later it’s such a masterpiece that it goes viral, he finds a new girlfriend and the music inspires a generation.
