INTERVIEW // GRAHAM FRANCIOSE ON LOSING EVERYTHING AND STARTING OVER

Of Dumpster Fires and Nurse Logs

Graham Franciose on losing everything and beginning again

Volume 7 // Issue 2 // Fall 2025 // Conservation

RQ: You say that your art is in part about grief and melancholy. Where does that come from? 

After doing some reflecting about it in more recent years, I suspect it came from being exposed to pretty severe depression in my family at a young age. But my work really changed in 2018, when I lost my older brother in a freak work accident. He was only a year and a half older than me, so he was always my guiding light and part of my foundation. When he passed, I fell into a pretty dark place, and my work started to really be about loss and grief. It was the only way I really knew how to process things that made no sense. //

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InterviewHeather BlakesleeNovember 13, 20257.2, Graham Francoise, Excerpt