Freaky Friday Inspo
In the 2003 hit Disney film Freaky Friday starring Jamie Lee Curtis and a teenage Lindsey Lohan, the two exchange bodies and their daily lives in a weird incident on Friday the 13th (freaky)! I haven’t seen the film in a while, but what I do remember appreciating at the time is the difficulty mothers and daughters sometimes have in understanding each other. This life-changing situation of swapping bodies with one another helps these characters better understand where the other is coming from while they work to get reunited with their bodies and lives once again.
I sometimes wonder if I’ve body swapped somehow because no where in my realm of possibilities did I ever imagine I would use the word artist to describe myself. I was a kid who enjoyed coloring and drawing but no one encouraged me to pursue a visually artistic path. No one was blown away by my so-called innate artistic talent. In fact, at a critically young age I was told that I wasn’t creative! What a terrible thought that burdened a young KCF for a long, long time.
I was living a very different life up until 2019. I’d spent my entire life in the academy going directly from high school into college into a PhD program into teaching until what once seemed like a very linear trajectory spun me into the world of an independent full time artist.
I know not everyone has the good fortune to body swap into a completely different life, but what if I told you, that you could feel just a little bit of the rush of that possibility everyday?
Well my friend, when you gaze onto the canvas of an Art of KCF Masterpiece you can do just that. When you collect my work, you are not only supporting an artist who is so deeply called to make the work that they quit their tenured track professorship to paint, but you’re also collecting some of that energy of a body swap experience without having to trade bodies! You can have a little piece of my soul with you, on your wall, in your home, at your workplace…
Did you know I recently launched my online storefront? Take a look around! See something you just can’t help but want to live with? Collect away! Do you have access to a departmental budget? The Art of KCF would be happy to supply your organization with a painting from my collection to serve as a portal of possibility.
And act now, you never know when you’ll wake up as someone else!
Lots of love,
KCF
PS: If you’ve read this far (thank you!) and you’re wondering, hey, why does this issue of the ART OF KCF Newsletter sound so different than usual? Allow me to reintroduce this project - the Freaky Friday edition will go out to those in my Collector’s Circle, every Friday with the hope of providing a little inspiration and joy in your inbox. On the Fridays that happen to also correspond to my long-form typical Art of KCF Newsletter updates I will cross share to both feeds. Freaky Friday issues are short(er) notes meditating on body swapping possibilities— as in allowing you a little deeper into the head and heart of this artist. Want to make sure you’re on the list so you won’t miss any Freaky Friday Missive? Email me back and I’ll make sure you won’t miss out. xo.
PPS: Happy Valentine’s Day to all who celebrate. xxoo