CPFM Smiley Puff Print Tie-Dye Graphic Tee - Pink

A Puff Print Is Not a Print. It Is a Sculpture on a Shirt — the Specific Process of Applying Ink That Has Been Formulated to Expand When Heat Is Applied, So That the Image Does Not Sit on the Surface of the Fabric but Rises Above It, So That the Person Looking at the Shirt Sees a Shape and the Person Touching the Shirt Feels a Shape and Both of These Shapes Are the Same Shape, Which Is the Shape of the CPFM Smiley Face, Which Is the Shape That CPFM Has Made Three-Dimensional Because CPFM Believes That the Things Worth Seeing Are Also Worth Touching. — CPFM Smiley Puff Print Tie-Dye Tee in Pink.

The CPFM Smiley Puff Print Tie-Dye Tee is the garment that most directly engages with the specific philosophy of Cactus Plant Flea Market — the philosophy that the graphic on the shirt should not be content to exist only in the visual dimension, that the image that is worth putting on a shirt is worth making three-dimensional, that the person who is going to wear the shirt deserves to have the experience of the shirt be tactile as well as visual, that the puff print is not a technique but a position: the position that the shirt is not a canvas for a flat image but a surface for a sculptural one. The smiley face is the image that CPFM has chosen to make three-dimensional, and the choice is not arbitrary — the smiley face is the image that is most universally understood as a two-dimensional symbol, the image that has been reduced to its most minimal form, the two dots and the curve that are the irreducible minimum of the expression of happiness, and CPFM has taken that minimal image and given it the maximum possible physical presence, has taken the flattest possible symbol and made it the most three-dimensional possible object, has taken the thing that everyone knows as a flat image and made it into the thing that you can feel with your hand. The tie-dye is the second decision that CPFM made about this shirt, and it is the decision that makes every shirt different from every other shirt — the process of folding and binding and dyeing the fabric before the shirt is cut and sewn, so that the pattern of the dye is determined by the specific way that this particular piece of fabric was folded and bound, which is a way that no other piece of fabric has ever been folded and bound in exactly the same way, which means that the shirt you receive is the only shirt that has ever existed with exactly that pattern of pink dye on exactly that fabric. The puff print smiley face is the same on every shirt. The tie-dye is different on every shirt. The combination of the universal and the unique is the CPFM philosophy in its most concentrated form — the image that everyone recognizes, made in the way that no one else has made it, on the shirt that no one else has. Pink is the color that CPFM has always understood as the color of the thing that is not trying to be serious, that is not trying to be dark or heavy or difficult, that is trying to be the thing that makes the person who sees it feel the specific feeling that the smiley face is trying to express, which is the feeling of the thing that is happy without needing a reason to be happy, which is the most radical kind of happiness because it is the kind that does not depend on anything outside itself.

Why You’ll Love It

• 🙂🌸✨ CPFM “Smiley” Puff Print Tie-Dye Tee — every other shirt in this collection is flat — this one is not — the puff print raises the smiley face off the fabric so you can feel it with your hand before you see it with your eyes — the tie-dye makes every single shirt different from every other shirt ever made — CPFM made both decisions at the same time
• 🌸 Pink — the color of happiness that needs no reason
  • The color that is not trying to be serious, dark, heavy, or difficult
  • The color that makes the person who sees it feel what the smiley face is trying to express
  • Happy without needing a reason — the most radical kind of happiness
• ✨ Puff print: a sculpture on a shirt — ink formulated to expand when heat is applied — the image does not sit on the fabric but rises above it — you see a shape and feel a shape and both shapes are the same shape — the smiley face made three-dimensional because CPFM believes things worth seeing are worth touching
• 🙂 The smiley face: the flattest symbol made most three-dimensional — the two dots and the curve — the irreducible minimum of expressed happiness — CPFM took the minimal image and gave it maximum physical presence — the thing everyone knows as flat, made into the thing you feel with your hand
• 🌈 Tie-dye: every shirt is the only shirt — folded, bound, and dyed before cutting and sewing — the pattern determined by the specific way this particular fabric was folded — a way no other fabric has ever been folded in exactly the same way — the shirt you receive has never existed before and will never exist again
• 📏 Sizes S – XL — Unisex — the smiley face has no size requirement — happiness is universal

Product Details

• Brand: CPFM (Cactus Plant Flea Market)
• Style: “Smiley” Puff Print Tie-Dye Short-Sleeve T-Shirt — Unisex
• Print Technique: 3D Puff / Foam Print (raised, tactile surface)
• Dye Technique: Tie-Dye (each piece unique)
• Color: Pink
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL
• Price: $59.00 USD

Note: Pink — the color of the thing that is happy without needing a reason to be happy, the most radical kind of happiness because it does not depend on anything outside itself. The CPFM Smiley Puff Print Tie-Dye Tee: a puff print is not a print. It is a sculpture on a shirt. The tie-dye makes every shirt the only shirt. The puff print smiley face is the same on every shirt. The tie-dye is different on every shirt. The universal and the unique — the CPFM philosophy in its most concentrated form.