Fantasy Plants

This was a gift from a woman artist named Suzanne, who lived in Berkeley. I had met her boyfriend, John who sells silkscreened tees on the street, and we became friends. One time they invited me to come with them into San Francisco to help work on an installation at cafe. John was silkscreening a repeating pattern onto a wall on one side, and Suzanne was stapling all these stuffed tails onto the other. The same night we stopped by a gallery in SoMa where she had a show at the time. There were lots of drawings similar to this print of imaginary plants. Except that in all the drawings the plants were really bright colors and had crazy patterns on them. And then she had made stuffed versions of the bright colored plants, also with crazy bright fabrics, that were between 3-4 feet tall. She had them arranged in little clusters in the center of the gallery, almost like a little kid could walk through a tripped out fantasy forest of alien plant life. This is a really popular shirt, and one of my favorites. It fits tight on me, the sleeves are almost more like 3/4 length style. People often ask me what the images are, if they are mushrooms.

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