Wednesday, October 16, 2024

What about the “o”?


 Can you read the “o” in LOVE? (Or does it look too much like an “e”?)

I’ve been wanting to do this design ever since I painted “Faith Hope love” on the boarded-up thrift store windows after George Floyd’s murder – – when the store was broken – – and my painted words lined up with the word in the sign above it saying THRIFT.

Here, me, May 2020 (that’s Asst Man, left):


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10 comments:

  1. gzOctober 16, 2024 at 11:09 AM

    With a couple of eyes it would make a happy face in the O

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    1. FrescaOctober 16, 2024 at 11:11 AM

      hm… 😊 not sure if that’s good or not! I’ll live with it for a little while…

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  2. AbbyOctober 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM

    I saw "love" right off the bat.
    gz says a happy face, I say a "loving" donut 🍩

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  3. AnonymousOctober 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM

    the "o" in love to me echos the "o" in hope but with more of the donut filled in. i like it. here's a question: do we have to print things so that people can read them or print what appeals to us? i ask as it depends on the market. make stuff for which there is a market or make stuff that is you. i personally like when i add my thoughts to what i see rather than the artist telling me what to think.
    you know me, i'll always take a contrarian view!!!!
    kirsten

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    1. FrescaOctober 17, 2024 at 6:42 AM

      Thanks, Kirsten--I'm generally getting a thumbs-up on the "o".
      That's a great question---do we print things for others or for ourselves.
      In one-of-a-kind art, I would say it's more for myself---
      But *printmaking* means publishing multiples--so I want to be able to give (or possibly one day sell) the prints,
      and then I'm more concerned with readability, etc.
      But I'd never want to make something purely For The Public and not for me, because why bother???

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  4. AnonymousOctober 16, 2024 at 5:18 PM

    I especially like the way the leg of the A in FAITH makes a tiny shadow on the I. And yep, my eye didn't stumble at all on the O in LOVE.
    Ceci

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    1. FrescaOctober 17, 2024 at 6:44 AM

      Thanks, Ceci! The feedback really helps. This is all new to me.
      I like the "A + I" too!

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  5. Joanne NoragonOctober 16, 2024 at 7:07 PM

    It reads properly to me. Our brains recognize what we expect to see.

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    1. FrescaOctober 17, 2024 at 6:46 AM

      Thanks, Joanne--seems this is another case like the backwards "a" in "what" (the Big Gulp print)--the mind fills in. And a word like "love" and in this quote, too---you could probably totally mangle it and people would see it.
      (Hm... that could be a fun experiment...)

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