This one takes me back to France ‘98, Japan’s first World Cup. Blue shirts with flames running down the sleeves, a whole country turning up for the first time and playing like they had nothing to lose.
We kept the flames and turned the jacket into two worlds.
The cream side is the one we were promised. A gold-framed painting of a computer screen on a Greek column, standing in a meadow between solar panels and a wind turbine. Our monogram is drawn over the crest. On the back, an airbrushed lotus holds an Om above the words FLOW DON’T FORCE.
Turn it inside out and you get the one we live in. The original JFA crest is back on the chest. Beside it, the hand from the Creation of Adam reaches for a pixel cursor instead of God. On the back, a halftone dollar sign glows green behind the words: courtesy of LATE STAGE CAPITALISM.
One side is how it could have been. The other is how it is. You pick which one faces out each morning.
