Dressed in my orange and black best, way to go Giants!
Where the rubber meets the road
Feet PortraitsMy Feet series will introduce you to the places my feet go and other feet they meet. Some people take pictures of food. I take pictures of feet. There’s more to come. Enjoy.
Really, what am I doing?
I've been invited by my alma mater to give an artist lecture on Friday, September 7.
While I feel extremely honored, it made me question what it is that I'm doing that caused them to ask me to address a group of students getting ready to enter the world of graphic design. Looking back to my very first typography course at Kansas State University and tracing that to the work I'm doing today was enlightening to say the least.
So I've decided to appropriately title my lecture, "What am I doing?" Here's the summary:
"We tend to ask ourselves this question too often — or not nearly enough. It's an uncomplicated question with a complicated answer. In this presentation, Brooke Francesi will disclose her obsession with documenting feet, nonsensical word poems, and magazine cut-outs. She'll invite you to challenge what it means to fail and discuss how one simple question can impact the creative process."
Thanks to Vince Francesi, Hunter Stark, and Victoria Montgomery for their contribution.
What am I doing?
How did I get from this, to this, to this?
Feet faces divulsed
I recently participated in a project called Dead Words. The project is best described by the curator, Karen To:"For over centuries, thousands of English words have been created, modified, and removed. Through this blog of lettering, we rediscover and interpret stories of dead words."
My submission for Dead Words helped me realized I'd come full circle to my BFA thesis project and now I'm not only running around take pictures of feet, I'm also cutting obscure words out magazines and ensuring each one has a face.
Who's getting me that pedicure already?
divulse \dahy-VUHLS\ verb: To tear away or apart.
Feet Portraits My Feet series will introduce you to the places my feet go and other feet they meet. Some people take pictures of food. I take pictures of feet. There’s more to come. Enjoy.
All that remains of July
Feet PortraitsMy Feet series will introduce you to the places my feet go and other feet they meet. Some people take pictures of food. I take pictures of feet. There’s more to come. Enjoy.
Faces of type are like feet
I think I've officially come full circle to my BFA thesis project. My latest obsession — of which I've only posted one — is hand cutting words out of magazines and ensuring each letter has part of a face in it...and then standing on my table and taking pictures of it with my feet.
The inspiration for my thesis project was a quote by J.L Frazier, "Faces of type are like men’s faces. They have their own expression; their complexion and peculiar twists and turns of line identify them immediately to friends, to whom each is full of identity."
Combine my love of lettering & typography and feet portraits, and you get something a little like this.
Also, would someone please get this girl a pedicure?
Feet Portraits My Feet series will introduce you to the places my feet go and other feet they meet. Some people take pictures of food. I take pictures of feet. There’s more to come. Enjoy.