WILSON
KELLO & KARINA ERDELYI
A mass of targets sweeps across the front of the shirt, overprinting
hems, seams and sleeves. The targets print in 50% white/50%
phosphorescent ink, giving them a subtle, milky luminescence.
They glow dully at night. This ghostly mass of targets hovers
over the bodies we live in and many of us worship; bodies
that to many are merely objects to destroy. You've been hit—the
tiny mass of angry black and the seeping red thread are the
single bullet it takes to extinguish life.
On the right side of the shirt, under the sleeve and straight
down along the vulnerable side of the body, the stated message
is repeated over and over: "It only takes one."
Embedded in this repetition is the sentence, "It only
takes one bullet to destroy life." The design will print
over hems and seams, rendering small imperfections that make
each shirt unique.
The back
of the shirt shows a chaotic mass of red and black lines and
shapes: the exit wound (always five to ten times the size
of the neat little entry). I would say there's no metaphor
here, but the graphic is actually an adaptation of an electron
micrograph of an unraveled strand of DNA. Violence is written
in the microscopic codes and maps of our being, and it takes
intelligence, effort and education to fight it.
This shirt is a message that in the current global climate,
we are all targets.
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