Quilted vest remade with hand-applied patches, activist ephemera, and folk-symbol appliqué.
Category: Remade
File Under: Eco-Activism, Political Hardcore, Straight Edge
Description
A surplus quilted vest in deep green nylon, reworked through layered appliqué, stitched intervention, and the addition of activist ephemera. The original garment (late 20th century, synthetic fill with orange lining) has been recut through a series of hand-applied elements,
The back features a large Earth Crisis patch—lettering hand-cut and appliquéd onto a fabric ground, its raw edge stitching left visible. The band (Earth Crisis), long associated with 1990s straight-edge hardcore, has since circulated into broader environmental turn of phrase, here positioned to reflect the widening urgency of the term.
On the front, a black textile Kokopelli motif is hand-cut and stitched. The figure—commonly seen across late-1990s and 2000s mass-market graphics, festival wear, and youth subculture—appears here as a reference to that era of folk-symbol circulation, without claiming or replicating its original Indigenous meaning.
Layered alongside is a round hand-painted patch reading DON’T REPENT JUST TRY TO SURVIVE THE FUTURE MAYBE IN TIME WE WILL PROSPER, paired with a removable pink ribbon and an original 2004 “I Support the Sitters – Red Hill Valley” button, referencing the Hamilton-based land and environmental protection action of that year.
A small Chains artist label is stitched at the lower back hem.
Quilted vest remade with hand-applied patches, activist ephemera, and folk-symbol appliqué.
Category: Remade
File Under: Eco-Activism, Political Hardcore, Straight Edge
Description
A surplus quilted vest in deep green nylon, reworked through layered appliqué, stitched intervention, and the addition of activist ephemera. The original garment (late 20th century, synthetic fill with orange lining) has been recut through a series of hand-applied elements,
The back features a large Earth Crisis patch—lettering hand-cut and appliquéd onto a fabric ground, its raw edge stitching left visible. The band (Earth Crisis), long associated with 1990s straight-edge hardcore, has since circulated into broader environmental turn of phrase, here positioned to reflect the widening urgency of the term.
On the front, a black textile Kokopelli motif is hand-cut and stitched. The figure—commonly seen across late-1990s and 2000s mass-market graphics, festival wear, and youth subculture—appears here as a reference to that era of folk-symbol circulation, without claiming or replicating its original Indigenous meaning.
Layered alongside is a round hand-painted patch reading DON’T REPENT JUST TRY TO SURVIVE THE FUTURE MAYBE IN TIME WE WILL PROSPER, paired with a removable pink ribbon and an original 2004 “I Support the Sitters – Red Hill Valley” button, referencing the Hamilton-based land and environmental protection action of that year.
A small Chains artist label is stitched at the lower back hem.
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