TOM ROBBINS - WOODPECKER/CHOICE - DYED

In honor and remembrance of one of my favorite authors, the great Tom Robbins, who wrote "Still Life with Woodpecker" which this design is largely inspired by - a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. He's written many other great novels such as "Roadside Attraction" and "Jitterbug Perfume." The film by Gus Van Sant "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" was also conjured through a ritual by Robbins that he once described as "scratching the back of the beast." His stories are psychedelically episodic narratives, like a dream catcher with beads of water; a series of flashbacks tied neatly in the center. A real fan of black ink on wood pulp. Tom Robbins moved to LaConner, Washington in 1970 where he wrote nine of his books and left this realm earlier this year on February 9th at the age of 92.

Nothing I can write will come close to even casting a shadow of the enigmatic wordsmith that was Robbins, so I'll leave you with an excerpt from an Rolling Stone interview with him from 1977 by Michael Rogers.

"NATURE IS TANTRIC"
Robbins suggest one afternoon as we're driving north in his convertible.
"The water on earth exists because hydrogen, with only one electron, is lonely and needs oxygen."
The observation leads promptly to a discussion of the chemical concept of oxidation-reduction reactions, and Robbins listens carefully to an explanation of that process from the science student in the car.
"So is that what bonds hydrogen and oxygen?" he asks finally.
"No," says the science student.
"That's when charge is transferred between two atoms."
"They are in love?" Robbins wonders.
"Well," she says, with some hesitation,
"it's like they both need something. One has too much and one has too little."
Robbins nods, satisfied. "That's what I said."

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Designed & Printed in Portland, Oregon.
Single color plastisol print on front & back
Printed on a 6.0z 100% combed ringspun cotton t-shirt
Dingy dyed and sun-fried to look like a cigarette-stained smile in a psychedelic state
( Please note the dye of the shirt is purposely uneven, slightly irregular and unique to each shirt )

Each shirt comes with a custom matchbook included

SHIRT MEASUREMENTS
Size - Height" ( from shoulder to hem ) x Width" ( from arm pit to arm pit )

Small - 26.75" - 18.625"
Medium - 27.875" - 20.625"
Large - 29.0" - 22.625"
X-Large - 30.375" - 24/625"
2X-Large - 31.75" - 26.625"
3X-Large - 32.375" - 28.625"

DISCLAIMER: THESE SHIRTS ARE NOT PERFECT ( and that's just the way we like them! ) Due to the nature of our production, no two shirts are identical. Each shirt is dyed by hand and printed by hand in a small studio by me! Each shirt is a labor of love and may have small ink spots from my grimy fingers or uneven or slightly off-center prints.

If you are truly dissatisfied with the quality of the shirt please email me at [email protected]