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Author: Curtis Fields

The Smiling Root Vegetables and the Two Meanings of Rooting

Nov 3, 2026Curtis Fields

The shirt reads LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW, and the words wrap around four smiling root vegetables: a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion, each drawn with its roots visible in soil. The lettering circles them like a border or a chorus. The vegetables are not in a…

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The Dashed Circle and the Solid Ball: What the ‘I Had Potential’ Shirt Actually Draws

Nov 2, 2026Curtis Fields

The shirt reads I HAD POTENTIAL in white capitals, and beneath the words is a curved ramp descending from left to right. At the top left ledge sits a dashed, empty circle. At the bottom right, on the flat, rests a solid white ball. That is the whole design. No arrows, no equations, no punchline…

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The Lowercase ‘meh’ Shirt: What a Very Small Word Asks of the Room

Nov 1, 2026Curtis Fields

The shirt shows a single word, set very small and centered on a dark ground: meh. Lowercase, with a period. No animal, no slogan stack, no illustration. The scale is the first thing to notice, because it changes what the word is doing. Most text shirts shout. They put the joke across the chest in…

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The Lowercase ‘meh’ Shirt: What a Very Small Word Asks of the Room

Oct 31, 2026Curtis Fields

The garment preview shows four letters and a period: meh. They are set in a heavy lowercase sans-serif, white against a dark ground, and they occupy the chest like a label rather than a joke. There is no animal, no mascot, no secondary illustration. The period is doing more work than the word. That period…

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The Caution Triangle as a Boundary: Reading the ‘Not Friendly Do Not Touch’ Shirt

Oct 30, 2026Curtis Fields

The first thing the eye finds is the triangle. A yellow caution triangle, the kind that usually warns of wet floors or high voltage, sits above a crossed-out hand. Below it, in the blunt lettering of a municipal notice, the words NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH stack in warning-sign caps. The design is not subtle.…

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The Smiling Root Vegetables and the Two Meanings of Rooting

Oct 29, 2026Curtis Fields

The carrot is smiling. So is the radish, the beet, and the onion, each drawn with its root trailing down into a band of soil. Around them, in capital letters, runs the line: LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. The artwork is a ring of cheerful vegetables, and the sentence is…

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