Three Shirts

A collaboration with Rae Costello | October, 2016

Growing out of an earlier collaboration between my mother, Rae, and I dating back to 1994, Three Shirts centers our relationship in the context of a shared task. 

While reviving P.J. Idaho’s stage shows in 2016, I remembered the western-wear shirts that I designed and my mom fabricated for P.J.’s original performances over twenty years prior. After a nostalgic phone conversation, we both agreed to recreate one of the shirts from memory, as an exercise in remembering, and as a way of generating new costumes for P.J.’s upcoming performances. After we finished, Rae retrieved the 1994 version from storage to complete the collection.