Imperfections

Confession: I am an orderly person. Ok, ok. I realize this is not much of a confession especially to those who know me personally. Many of you have seen me completely rewrite a page of notes when two different pens were used to write them, or have been the victim of me straightening out your clothing because it was "bothering me", or have noticed that it is impossible for me to get any work done if my bed is not made. To put it nicely, I like things to be nice and neat. To put it honestly, I'm a control freak.

The thing that's cool about art is that it forces us to get rid of these controlling mentalities. Michelangelo claimed that the figures he sculpted were already inside the stone, he was just setting them free. And while I'd never be bold enough to compare myself to Michelangelo, I do understand where he was coming from. Art is about freedom, it's about using what does exist to create something that has never existed before. And if we control it, we'll never get it right. If we control it there will never be anything new. We'll just end up with what we already had.

This is what Laughing Soul does for me. If you haven't noticed, bleach is difficult to control and impossible to erase. When my paintbrush drips on a shirt, that drip then must become part of the design. When bleach won't soak in to one part of the fabric, I have to work around it. And the cool part about this is that these uncontrollable "imperfections" usually end up making the shirts look so much better than I ever would have imagined them. I don't have to be afraid of messing up because this freedom of design is what makes Laughing Soul unique. I only hope that when you wear a LS shirt, you are reminded that your "imperfections" are sometimes the best parts about you.