Laundry Clothing is a foundationally human trait. I find it interesting that clothing is used to hide private parts as well as selectively used to reveal choice things. Outfits of specific functions or styles are chosen to show how a person wants to be identified. Hipster, jock, skater, surfer, street-goth, sneakerhead, trendy, cool, wealthy, unique: I find that clothing is used to show how a person wants to be identified as a human. My work explores the common human identity in its necessities and longings using clothing. The vivid, appropriated visual style is meant to boldly draw attention to itself, and its vehicle of the basic cotton t-shirt brings new, functional considerations to these visual artifacts. Just as the meaning of the word laundry can flip between clean clothes and dirty clothes, this body of work explores what I believe to be a battle between human desire and human fulfillment.
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