Profile 2025. Tee Shirt Patches.
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| The two ‘tee shirt patches’ I have submitted are a re imagining of badges often associated with 1970s punk culture. Worn as a collection on a jacket lapel or tee shirt, badges would define the wearer’s tribal alliances. In an old school, analogue world, lapel badges signaled to others your values, your interests and affiliations. They brought you all together but also like a binary code of zeros and ones the collection of badges would build an impression of a singular individual. The stamped phrases on these badges derive from 90’s dance music, my tribal beginnings. Dance floor anthems that call you to dance. Words that still live with me today. The work is made using a commercial badge machine although I have replaced photocopies with fine silver and copper shim. As far as I know this is a unique technique. |