Oct. 3rd 2020

"The $100.00 T-Shirt!"

Anonymous Model with  $50.00 T-Shirt

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This Rhythmistic Residency opened July 7th 2020.  My goal was to complete four Kokopellis re-contextualized to symbolize Visual Art, Performing Art, Literature and Music. I needed to finish these by Oct. 2nd, which was the date to end my Summer Residency.   That deadline was met!  

But something happened along the way.

Above:This T-Shirt went to Ms Kate Lorenz                          Below: This  T-Shirt went to Dan Executive Director, Hyde Park Art Center                             Founder of Diasporal Rhythms

                

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During that intense production time I started doing wearable art again. (During the 1980s I had a wearable art fashion line called "ONLIWEAR".)  

This was my "Michael Jackson Cape" a spoof on his hair being set afire during a commercial production. Which was later redesigned into a coat and sold.

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Rhythmistic Art in the form of one-of-a-kind- or limited edition air-brushed Rhythmistic T-Shirts.  These were to be gifts to the Hyde Park Art Center Staff that were connected to or actually responsible for my having this wonderful residency. 

 As I gifted the Staff...eureka!  

Wow! it occurred to me that I may be able to produce the $100.00 T-shirt. A wearable expressive sequences of images so powerful. 

So unique. So dynamic. So very Rhythmistic that they would sell for $100.00 to the right person.  The right people.  Why not? Fortunes rise and fall on the $100.00 plus gym-shoe or the $50.00 Martini.

This surprise inspiration became another Rhythmistic objective along that way to getting the textile paneled Kokopellis ready for quilting.

Art appreciators who visited were very impressed with them.  Several even offered to buy some.  Of course I obliged each of them their choice of rare, hot, ever-cool select Rhythmistic T-Shirts.  

This was a positive trickle or interest and potential.

Prices seems to currently hover from $30.00 to $50.00. That temperature is rising! I know I can yet produce that elusive big one. The almighty $100.00 T-shirt.  Not featuring a trendy slogan or a remix of a corporate logo or a bootlegged mainstream character.  But actual unique wearable Rhythmistic Art. I know art lovers and the tribes of the corporate logos know a good thing when they see them. Hand-painted by the vintage Me!  What a great deal.

 Everybody needs a Rhythmistic $100.00 T-Shirt in their stash.