UNIVERSE DANCING long-form, sz XL

Printed onto a 90s "Stafford" tie-dye t-shirt, tagged XL (22.5" pit-to-pit / 29" shoulder-to-hem)

"I cannot imagine her in a room without music. We put on FM radio because our wifi bill lapsed this month, and instead of getting current, we elected to go out for dinner. On the way home, she looked to the sky, empty: a new moon. Her eyes glistened anyway. But now we’re home, listening to FM radio under a new moon, under a roof, under the floor of our upstairs neighbor. They could tune in with us. They could share this song, syncopate their steps with us — maybe they are. Maybe everyone is. An ad blares, “THIS IS A POLITICAL AND SPIRITUAL ENDORSEMENT. EVEN IF UNINTENTIONAL — LIFE (AND GOD) SPEAKS TO US THROUGH SERENDIPITY. MEANING IS ATTRIBUTED, NOT INHERENT.” Looking at her movements, you wouldn’t know an ad just played. She finds a rhythm in those words and continues gliding across the apartment. I am a feather thrown in the flurry of her wind, swirling around her — no, with her — unable to distinguish where she ends and I begin. Between violent kicks and tranquil sways, there are blurred glimpses of one life among infinite others. As celestial beings, we circle the room in each other’s orbits. We’re cosmic dust guided by a force we put a name to only a few hundred years ago, and tonight it compels us to dance. Our flailing limbs begin to dissolve like a new moon, then our bodies; then the apartment, its walls and its ceiling. The sky falls softly to the ground, and I see you (universe) dancing in the street."

Original graphic and writing screen-printed by hand.

Made and printed in USA.

Every (sidewalk) chawk piece is unique, both because the blanks used are typically vintage and the artwork is screen-printed by hand. Some pieces may have blemishes. We consider them to be marks of raw, intimate authenticity; and we hope you do as well.