Vertabrae Shepherd Portrait Graphic Tank Top – Light Gray

The Tank Is the Garment of the Person Who Has Decided That the Work Requires Full Range of Motion and Has Dressed Accordingly. The Shepherd Does Not Sit. The Shepherd Moves Through the Terrain That the Flock Needs to Cross, Ahead of the Flock, Navigating the Terrain So That the Flock Does Not Have to Navigate It Alone. The Vertabrace Shepherd Portrait Oil Print Tank Is the Garment of This Movement — the Silhouette That Frees the Arms Because the Arms Are What the Leading Requires. — Vertabrace Shepherd Portrait Tank in Light Gray.

The Vertabrace Shepherd Portrait Oil Print Tank is the garment that most directly engages with the archetype of the person who goes first — not the leader in the organizational sense, the person with the title and the authority that the title grants, but the shepherd in the oldest sense of the word, the person whose function is to be where the others are not yet in order to make it possible for the others to get there, to know the terrain that the others need to cross before the others arrive at it, to navigate the conditions that would be navigated incorrectly by someone who arrived at them without the specific knowledge that the shepherd’s position at the front of the movement produces. The portrait in the oil print tradition on this tank is the portrait of this shepherd — the face that has been rendered in the specific medium that artists have used for centuries to capture the faces that are worth capturing, the faces that carry in their surface the specific history that makes them worth preserving, that have been through the conditions that produce the particular depth that the oil portrait medium is designed to record. The oil print on a tank in the streetwear context is the specific collision of the fine art tradition and the contemporary garment that produces the kind of object that exists simultaneously in both worlds — that carries the visual authority of the painted portrait while occupying the physical space of the streetwear garment that the person who wears it is going to actually move in, that is going to be worn in the conditions that the shepherd navigates rather than hung in the gallery where the portrait of the shepherd would traditionally be displayed. Vertabrace as a brand carries in its name the structural element of the human body that makes the upright position possible — the vertebra, the spinal column, the architecture that holds the body in the position from which the shepherd can see the terrain and move through it. The tank silhouette is the completion of this structural logic — the garment that exposes the shoulders and the arms and the spine’s movement, that makes visible the architecture that Vertabrace names, that frees the upper body for the full range of motion that the shepherd’s work requires. Light Gray is the color of the terrain the shepherd moves through before it has been named — the specific gray of the landscape that is neither the darkness of the place the flock is leaving nor the brightness of the place the flock is going but the specific quality of the terrain in between, the color of the ground that the shepherd knows and the flock does not yet know.

Why You’ll Love It

• 🐑🎨🪨 Vertabrace “Shepherd” Portrait Oil Print Tank — the shepherd does not follow the path — the shepherd makes the path by going first — the portrait is the face of the person who has already decided — the oil print is the permanence of that decision applied to the surface the way a decision that has been made cannot be unmade
• 🪨 Light Gray — the color of the terrain the shepherd moves through before it has been named
  • Neither the darkness of the place the flock is leaving nor the brightness of the destination
  • The specific quality of the terrain in between
  • The color of the ground the shepherd knows and the flock does not yet know
• 👁️ Portrait in oil print: fine art authority in streetwear form — the medium artists have used for centuries to capture faces worth preserving — faces that carry in their surface the specific history that makes them worth recording — the oil print on a tank: the collision of fine art tradition and the contemporary garment the shepherd actually moves in
• 🦴 Vertabrace: the vertebra — the architecture that makes the upright position possible — the spinal column that holds the body in the position from which the shepherd can see the terrain and move through it — the brand name is the structural logic of the garment’s purpose
• 💪 Tank silhouette: the garment of full range of motion — exposes the shoulders, arms, and spine’s movement — makes visible the architecture Vertabrace names — frees the upper body for what the shepherd’s work requires — the shepherd does not sit — the shepherd moves
• 📏 Sizes S – XL — Unisex — Pure Cotton — the terrain has no size requirement — the shepherd’s path is open to anyone willing to go first — Light Gray: the unnamed ground — the portrait: the face that has already decided — the tank: the silhouette of the one who leads with arms free

Product Details

• Brand: Vertabrace
• Style: “Shepherd” Portrait Oil Print Tank Top — Unisex — Pure Cotton
• Color: Light Gray
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL
• Price: $59.00 USD

Note: Light Gray — the color of the terrain the shepherd moves through before it has been named, the ground the shepherd knows and the flock does not yet know. The Vertabrace Shepherd Portrait Oil Print Tank: the shepherd does not follow the path. The shepherd makes the path by going first and knowing that the rest will come when they see someone going. The portrait is the face of the person who has already decided. The oil print is the permanence of that decision. The tank is the silhouette of the one who leads with arms free because the arms need to be free for what the leading requires.