Wearing Street Art

The last post was admittedly a bit grim. This week, no one will be attempting to carve out feeding tubes from their arms.  Instead, how about a bit of art?

I ran across the Constrvct website via Ecouterre (a weekly newsletter I get about sustainable clothing and fashion).  Essentially, you can design your own dress or t-shirt using photos you have taken or artwork you’ve made.  Anything that’s in a jpeg form. The dresses are pretty pricey to purchase (about $350!), but it’s fun to mess around with the website and create one-of-a-kind designs.  I entered this one into a competition:

I call it “AmsterDAMN.” Tee-hee.  The photo was originally taken of some street art in Amsterdam.  Here’s the original:

I have had a fascination with street art ever since I studied in Ecuador.  There, the art was largely political.  Some stencils, some free-hand.  All beautiful.
Here’s the dress from another angle:
 Have fun designing!

Author: KateBitters

Kate Bitters is a Minneapolis-based author and freelance writer. She is the author of Elmer Left, Ten Thousand Lines, and He Found Me. One of her proudest/nerdiest moments was when Neil Gaiman read one of her short stories on stage at the Fitzgerald Theater.