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T-Shirt: Expansion

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I created yarn out of the T-shirt by cutting and stretching the fabric. This physical act is expansion itself. The top looks different on every body it clings to.

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A model is standing in front of a white backdrop facing towards the camera with their arms by their side. They are wearing a white fitted tank top, white underwear, and a crocheted grey sleeveless top layered on top.
A model is standing in front of a white backdrop facing towards the camera. They are wearing a white fitted tank top and white underwear. They are stretching the gray crochet fabric downwards with their hands.
model is standing in front of a white backdrop facing away from the camera. They are wearing a white fitted tank top and white underwear. They are holding the crochet gray top with two hands; one hand is holding the fabric by their shoulder, the other by their lower back.
model has their back to the camera against a white backdrop and is slightly twisting their body. Only their lower back and base of their neck is visible. They are wearing a white fitted tank top and white underwear. They are stretching the gray crochet top with their fingers.
This is a detail photo of the crochet knots of the gray top. The white tank top and white underwear is slightly visible through the crochet work.

As an assignment in Louise Harpman’s Fall 2021 Interdisciplinary-Seminar “Good Design: Objects, Bodies, Buildings, Cities,” each student was given a design principle and asked to convey that principle using a blank second-hand T-shirt. I was assigned “expansion.” I created yarn out of the T-shirt by cutting and stretching the fabric. This physical act is expansion itself. The top looks different on every body it clings to.

Jordan Rampulla (BA ’24) originally created “T-Shirt: Expansion” in Louise Harpman’s Fall 2021 Interdisciplinary Seminar “Good Design: Objects, Bodies, Buildings, Cities.”

 
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