I Still Speak 
Southern in 
My Head

DESIGN DIRECTION AND CONCEPT — CALEB CAIN MARCUS
PUBLISHER — WORKSHOP ARTS
ARTISTS — NANCY FARESE

I Still Speak Southern In My Head is a visual investigation rooted in what Farese calls "the Southern Paradox—an experience of beauty alongside violence, defiance alongside shame—and we don’t know what to do with it."  

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Farese reexamines her childhood growing up in the South in the 60s. Some of the cultural tropes resonating with the Southern experience that she considers and questions include the culture of segregation, views on female-gendered roles, and the intersections between what we experience as children and what we learn about those experiences and memories of place, home, and family once we've grown.

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Our design echoes the embroidery and collage Farese uses in her work, through overlapping pages of different sizes, tip ins and multi colored binding thread.

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I Still Speak Southern in My Head has been collected by the Emory University Library, the Georgia Tech Library and the University of West Georgia Library.