My Great Aunt’s Shirt

“My Great Aunt’s Shirt”

Shirt, thread, beads, printed patch

Clothes are worn, thrown, loved, hated, bought, scratched, stitched, sweated, rejected, eaten, hugged, squeezed, clinched, inherited, awkward, uncomfortable, small, large, sized, fitted, adjusted, ripped, torn, cared for, washed, crooked, bent, stained, abandoned, found, boiled, crumpled, wrinkled, sewn, patched, trashed, experienced.

Even after our death the marks we left stay present, and even gross sweat stains can become a tie to the to the world of the dead telling not only the story of the piece, but ours as well.