T-Shirt Book

1998

T-shirts, patchwork fabric, denim, zipper, thread

I took all my T-shirts from childhood through college and made them into a book. A zippered cover allows it to double as a pillow.

Page 1
This was my mom's shirt. I remember her wearing it in the 70's and I thought it was the coolest shirt ever.

 

Page 2
I grew up in West Virginia. When I was a little girl I used to daydream about marrying John Denver.

Page 3
I was Marta in the Sound of Music at the Parkersburg Actor's Guild. My brother was Kurt and my parents were the maid and butler.

Page 4
Peterkin was the summer camp I attended in Romney, WV. I went there all through my childhood and then was a counselor and lifeguard.

Page 5
This was my dad's shirt. He was the priest at St. Matthew's in Wheeling, WV. Everything they say about preacher's kids is true.

 

Pages 6 and 7
These shirts were from my junior high years when brand names were everything.

 

 

 

Page 8
I cut the back out of my soccer jacket.

Page 9
These are random patches on a shirt I used to wear.

 

 

 

Pages 10 and 11
I was a cheerleader and ran track (hurdles) for Triadelphia Jr. High School. Go Raiders!

 

 

 

 

Pages 12 and 13
Man, I was a JOCK! I played hockey (defense) for 6 years. I'm in the second row, second girl from the right.

 

 

 

 

 

Pages 14 and 15
And I was a swimmer (backstroke).

 

 

 

 

 

Pages 16 and 17
And a diver.

 

 

 

Page 18
This was actually my mom's shirt.It's from Wrightsville Beach, NC, where we went on family vacations every summer and I kissed boys on Johnny Mercer's Pier.

Page 19
I got this shirt in Jamaica for 3 dollars.

 

 

Page 20
My sign.

Page 21
M.C. Escher print.

 

 

 

 

 

Pages 22 and 23
A shirt from my first Grateful Dead Show.

 

 

Page 24
Erik made me this shirt the first year we were dating. Our dog Koko stepped on it when it was wet and left her puppy prints.

Page 25
A friend of ours changed his name to Tuco Foose and started making football art. Another friend made this shirt to make fun of Foose.

 

Pages 26 and 27
The epicenter was a non-profit comtemporary art gallery my friends started in Shepherdstown, WV. After 3 years the zoning commission shut us down. Bastards.

 

 

 

Page 28
This was a music store in Martinsburg, WV.

Page 29
For two summers I was a white water raft guide on the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers. We floated past Harper's Ferry.

 

 

Page 30
My cousin Lynn made this shirt for our family reunion in 1997. The lady on the chair is my great-grandmother Dada (pronounced like the surrealist movement). She died when I was 5.

 

THE END!