Fashion & Textile2019produced

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A denim jacket drawn on like a page

The back of a pale bleached blue denim jacket, worn, covered in fine dark line drawings scattered across the shoulders and body

Close on the back of the jacket: a figure throwing off rays, a plant, small framed boxes and an eye drawn in fine dark line over bleached blooms — Close enough to read one: a figure, throwing off rays.

Blue denim bleached until the colour breaks into pale blooms, like weather seen from above, and then drawn on in fine dark line: a figure throwing off rays, a plant, an eye, small framed boxes with something inside each one, tools that do not exist.

The shoulder and sleeve of the jacket, drawings running down the arm — They run down the sleeve too. Nothing repeats.

The marks are the same ones that fill the black books and the five-metre panel. They are not arranged as a print or a pattern. They sit where a hand put them, scattered across the back, running down a sleeve, tucked beside a pocket — the way notes land on a page rather than the way a motif repeats on cloth.