"Un-Natural" Sueded Tee

Artist Series Zak Jensen Co-lab 

We will be periodically releasing collaborative artistic pieces with friends, colleagues, and designers who inspire, motivate and are important parts of our lives and mental spaces. Enjoy our inaugural piece with long time friend, designer, teacher, artist, and all around bad-ass Zak Jensen. 

You may find out more about Zak by visiting our Instagram page or visiting his website,    https://zakjensen.com/.

The concept of nature is kind of funny. Many of us want to be part of it but nature only exists, by definition, as something we’re excluded from. There are old stories about how we were involuntarily separated from the natural world a long time ago—they tell of a longing that has persisted.

Today, when we’re perhaps as alienated as we’ve ever been, we often leverage fantasies of nature—appealing to our innate desire to return—to sell cars, vacations, and backpacks to each other. But how are we not nature? We’re made out of the same stuff as mountains and lakes and stars. Each of us is a little ecosystem. Does the separation, like all concepts, only exist in our minds?

Maybe the shortest route to the natural world is out of our heads and into our bodies, where we can feel our hearts and lungs working as we move across the surface of the earth.

Love, Zak Jensen

Specs: 

American Apparel Sueded Cloud Jersey T

• Ultra soft sueded jersey cotton (seriously so soft)
• Relaxed modern fit
• Made with OEKO-TEX certified low-impact dyes
• Sustainable manufacturing: this product contains 100% BCI cotton and meets OEKO-TEX standard 100.  
• Model is 5'10" and is wearing size Medium