Balloon Journey Heart

(front view)

Balloon Journey

© 2007 Kristen Foskett
Sponsored by Precita Eyes Muralists Association for the Heroes & Hearts Benefit for the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.

This painting is a modernized extrapolation on the classic story of Little Red Riding Hood in which a little girl, dawning a red hooded sweatshirt, travels alone in a patchwork, hot air balloon. It is meant to serve as a parable of realization and discovery. As she flies over San Francisco, the little girl realizes how small we all really are, and she throws flowers out of her basket onto the city, representing the process of "greening" urban environments and her small way of dropping the seeds of awareness onto the cement. The patches on the balloon symbolize the geographical and cultural diversity she encounters on her "Balloon Journey."

Artist Biography - Kristen Foskett

Muralist, Kristen Foskett, is a 26 year-old native of Cleveland, Ohio. She is an accomplished artist and educator who has built an outstanding reputation from coast to coast. While living in New York City, she received her BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. Kristen currently resides in San Francisco where she teaches mural arts and paints commissioned works with Precita Eyes Muralists, an established community mural arts organization based in the Mission District. Kristen is also an instructor at the San Francisco Children's Art Center, and moonlights as an independent artist performing freelance illustration and mural work, much of which can be viewed at www.kristenfoskett.com.

(rear view)