Video Transcript 

[Automated voice from answering machine] Hello, no one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone.

[Tone]

[Male voice] Hey Brandyn, this is your father. Luke I am your fath- hahaha…

[Catches breath from laughing] Call me and let me know you’re alright.

[Disconnected phone tone that fades into static/white noise]

Artist Statement 

While my father was deployed overseas, he bought me this beautiful marble chess set.

Growing up, I was not interested in sports or other typical “father/son activities”—but chess was something we could bond over.
So, I gladly became his student. Inheriting my father’s wit more and more with each match. 

Unfortunately, my father has suffered from many strokes and doesn’t quite have the critical thinking to keep up with a game like chess anymore.

I’m sorry these things just frustrate you now, Dad. 

I still continue to play, so I don’t forget how.
I don’t want to forget how, so I don’t forget you.

Why am I talking to you about this?

Why am I making work about this? 

I don’t know. 

I just miss playing chess with my dad, I think.

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Brandyn Busico

Please leave

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Brandyn Busico

Video Transcript 

[Automated voice from answering machine] Hello, no one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone.

[Tone]

[Male voice] Hey Brandyn, this is your father. Luke I am your fath- hahaha…

[Catches breath from laughing] Call me and let me know you’re alright.

[Disconnected phone tone that fades into static/white noise]

Artist Statement 

While my father was deployed overseas, he bought me this beautiful marble chess set.

Growing up, I was not interested in sports or other typical “father/son activities”—but chess was something we could bond over.
So, I gladly became his student. Inheriting my father’s wit more and more with each match. 

Unfortunately, my father has suffered from many strokes and doesn’t quite have the critical thinking to keep up with a game like chess anymore.

I’m sorry these things just frustrate you now, Dad. 

I still continue to play, so I don’t forget how.
I don’t want to forget how, so I don’t forget you.

Why am I talking to you about this?

Why am I making work about this? 

I don’t know. 

I just miss playing chess with my dad, I think.

A digital artwork part of F&S's fifth zine issue, I'm Sorry.

Brandyn Busico (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, who received his BFA from Watkins College of Art, Design & Film. He shifts mediums between photography, videography, & installation. Busico’s work(s) tend(s) to dance with themes of the psyche, the human experience, illness, & symbolism. By marrying these themes with his love for horror & science fiction aesthetics, Brandyn continues to create a body of work that questions the world through a surrealist lens. When relaxing, he enjoys hanging out with his cat & organizing his insect collection.

I'm Sorry

Contents

#link:hover { color: #F2942F; } I. Introduction by Chelsea Kaiah

#link:hover { color: #6BC09C; } II. SMAD Peach by Sumer Mohsen

#link:hover { color: #F35C18; } III. Please leave a message 001 by Brandyn Busico

#link:hover { color: #F35C18; } IV. NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS by Mahalia Hunt
#link:hover { color: #F35C18; } V. Violin Landscapes by Joshua Jauregui
#link:hover { color: #F35C18; } VI. Remembering by Iako'tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers
#link:hover { color: #F35C18; } VII. Roses Soft by Cherish Marquez
#link:hover { color: #F35C18; } VIII. Untitled by Holly Nordeck
#link:hover { color: #F35C18; } IX. Jane Roe by Natani Notah
#link:hover { color: #F35C18; } X. Crater by Rowan Hynds
#link:hover { color: #F35C18; } XI. Bridges We Burn by Carmen Selam