“Girl Jeans”
Altered jeans— inspired by the riot grrrl movement. An “update” of the feminist punk era with intersectionality, capturing the sense of destruction and rebuilding of femininity that characterized the subculture. Incorporates women of color, sapphic elements, and written political sentiments from both the original generation and today with my own philosophy and readings.
Text reads (top to bottom, left side to right side): left side— “THE LEFT IS RIGHT!”, “climate change, class + race. gender & sex”, “Can time really change everything? Yes.”, “I hate when people say they don’t care about clothes, because it’s a lie. It’s like when writers say they don’t care about plot. Lie. We are always asking for something when we get dressed. Asking to be loved, to be fucked, to be admired, to be left alone, to make people laugh, to scare people, to look wealthy, to say I’m poor, I love myself. It’s the quiet poem in the waiting room, on the subway, in the movie of our lives. It’s a big fucking deal.” (Leopoldine Core, Women in Clothes), “LOVE THE SIN, HATE THE SINNER”, right side— “LOVE & PEACE”, “Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion— its message becomes meaningless.” (Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism), “夏丽杉” (Xia Li Shan).
POSCA marker on denim.
