PERU
1983 / August 8th Veiko Vladimir Valencia Pacheco born in Arequipa, Peru.
1989 / From 1983 to 1989, he doesn’t remember anything.
1990 / His brother taught him how to draw Transformers.
1991 / His sister, his brother, and he used to draw together but only for 30 minutes.
1994 / He drew in classes all day. He didn’t pay attention in classes. He didn’t know how to study. As a result, he did bad on the tests, but he did all the homework.
1995 / He brought home a frog with two legs from a school field trip. He kept it in a bucket in his backyard. It died two days after the third leg came out. He lost his first friend. He cried.
1996 / He did a drawing for a school competition. The theme was pollution. The principal who was the jury didn’t select him. The principal selected the work of a student whose drawing was done by his mom. His main teacher complained. Told the principal, Valencia needs to represent the school, he is an artist.
1996 / He didn’t attend the competition. He went to the competition alone with his pencils and paper, but took the wrong bus. He got lost.
1999 / In high school, he drew a lot of X-men characters for a project. The teacher told him to draw more Peruvian stuff. He got a bad grade. In the same class he papermached a brain for a science project. The teacher liked it. As a reward, the teacher made him skip class to help him store all the projects in an abandoned lab in the school. He saw dissected lizards and frogs in jars for the first time.
1999 / For a procession, he drew the Saint Domingo Savio on paper sized 46 x 36 inches with sharpies. He never saw that drawing again. He got high from the sharpies too.
2000 / He saw a charcoal pencil drawing for the first time at an English class.
2002 / He found out there was an art school in the city.
USA
2015 / He visited a Natural Historical Museum in New York for the first time.
2016 / He created Don Santo, a fictitious saint. Patron of the Copy of the Copy.
2017 / His Brother invited him to join his philosophy club. They were reading Hegel. He formed a philosophy club with his brother. Since then, they share their notes and research.
2018 / Don Santo disappeared.
2020 / His Brother-in-Law, Mark gave him the plastic rat. He bought it at a yard sale in Twin Falls.
2023 / He wrote a poem:
“If Mary Oliver were a biologist, I would dissect every animal for her. If Cesar Vallejo were a priest, I would attend church every Sunday. And if Robert Wrigley were a mortician, I would help him build coffins for all animals in the world, coffins for worms, for chickens, and fireflies.”
His wife, Susan Lasater shared this poem with Kim Barnes who shared it with Robert Wrigley.
Bob replied that he was impressed and moved by the poem and said that it was a poem unto itself. He was happy.
“If Mary Oliver were a biologist, I would dissect every animal for her. If Cesar Vallejo were a priest, I would attend church every Sunday. And if Robert Wrigley were a mortician, I would help him build coffins for all animals in the world, coffins for worms, for chickens, and fireflies.”
His wife, Susan Lasater shared this poem with Kim Barnes who shared it with Robert Wrigley.
Bob replied that he was impressed and moved by the poem and said that it was a poem unto itself. He was happy.
2025 / He illustrates the stories of their dogs with his wife, a writer and poet, Susan Lasater. They work together to illustrate local stories and hope to someday make a graphic novel of Susan’s work.
2026 / He and his wife Susan Lasater published the story of Dennis the Cat. It is the true story of a cat who lived in the Idaho's oldest prison in 1952.