Although it is open to interpretation, I decided to keep the original title of ambivalence as that was my feeling at the time I created this. On a fundamental level it represents something of a dualism, like a modern yin-yang. Ambivalence, conflict, concurrency, neutrality, etc. It can mean anything you want it to mean, really, I’m quite ambivalent about that.

Shown here as illustrated in Spring 2002 with a minor edit from Fall 2003. It was originally conceived in Fall 2001.

In 2002 I created some shirts based on this design. I found suitable red and blue t-shirts and brought them to a seamstress and had them combined into half-red half-blue t-shirts. I then had the black and white part silk-screened over the center of the shirts. Although the first one had a minor misprint, not surprising since it was a unique request, the others came out reasonably well. I don’t recall having seen any other t-shirt with a seam down the middle, so the process required extra care in order to have the print properly aligned.

The inspiration for this design was an evolutionary process that originated with a mismatched pair of socks and culminated into this. A narrative that I am sarcastically sure you have great interest in reading.

Seriously though, I am quite fond of this one and I will probably work with it some more. Expect it to come up again.