Culture Coat

Commercial wool & Lycra, sewn coat, hand screen printed, hood lining of commercial silk over-dyed and discharged. One size. "Portlandia" coat from Saf-T-Pocket Pattern Co. This coat is for sale through KrissKicksDesigns.etsy.com

This coat was one of the pieces shown in the Capilano University 2009 Grad Show of the Textile Arts Department, where I was privileged to show my work along with grads of both the Diploma program and the Advanced certificate program. I was thinking of issues of "high" culture and "low" culture and made what I call an "opera" coat, decorating it with a screen print based on a photo of a pot of refried beans that had been left far too long at room temperature! I found the culture of molds that developped to be fascinatingly beautiful.