tion of all-around text — designed for the gaze of a broad public, engineered to support mass consumption. This shirt departs from that logic. It carries a screen-printed essay traversing a constellation of concepts: Authenticity, the quality of being Real and True; Ecstatic Truth; Henry Fuseli; Plato's allegory of the t-shirt, and so forth — followed, on the back, by a manifesto in defence of more boring t-shirts.
By silkscreening essayistic writing onto a garment, both the carrier — literal and symbolic — and the act of carrying are altered. The wearer enters into simultaneous conversation with the essay's author and with the incidental reader encountered in the street. The text can be approached from multiple angles, in fragments both brief and extended.
I wonder if the person wearing the shirt becomes part of the medium itself, carrying the text through the urban field, animating it through movement?