Symbols & Signifiers Shirt
if folk art is a cannon of symbols and signifiers; of the people, a common ground and a collective picture, then a collage created in such a world is a further blurring and soldering of these collective images into one, each informed by the precedent. what happens when these images are carved in stone, in skin? what images endure? what was created, what was copied? what designs have been drawn, over millennia, by Mother Nature herself?
tribal designs, “bird” block print, and panther image transfer by Thom DeVita.
screenprinted with Chicago Research
on gildan 100% “heavy cotton”
if folk art is a cannon of symbols and signifiers; of the people, a common ground and a collective picture, then a collage created in such a world is a further blurring and soldering of these collective images into one, each informed by the precedent. what happens when these images are carved in stone, in skin? what images endure? what was created, what was copied? what designs have been drawn, over millennia, by Mother Nature herself?
tribal designs, “bird” block print, and panther image transfer by Thom DeVita.
screenprinted with Chicago Research
on gildan 100% “heavy cotton”
if folk art is a cannon of symbols and signifiers; of the people, a common ground and a collective picture, then a collage created in such a world is a further blurring and soldering of these collective images into one, each informed by the precedent. what happens when these images are carved in stone, in skin? what images endure? what was created, what was copied? what designs have been drawn, over millennia, by Mother Nature herself?
tribal designs, “bird” block print, and panther image transfer by Thom DeVita.
screenprinted with Chicago Research
on gildan 100% “heavy cotton”