Casey Giakas

Discipline: Potter

Casey Giakas

The best way to help artists and people who have been impacted by disasters is to understand. Artists may have lost the tools they use to express themselves. Everyone had very different experiences. The effect of a decision for me was very different then the effect the same decision had on my boyfriend or our friends in our hurricane [Irma] group. For each person it was different; your emotions are so heightened and for most of us we were having to not only work together with our own tribe but now we have all these other people to try and work with and trust. We are all working towards a similar goal.

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