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Description

Yellow t-shirt with identical printed design on left breast and back. Design is of a person sitting cross-legged on the ground. Their left hand is covering their face, right is resting against their leg and gesturing to a red plate with a vatu banknote on it. Large red text, in Bislama, is printed to the figure’s right. On the front, the text translates to: “Are you able to eat money?!”. On the back, the text translates to: “Selling land? Think carefully about it…”. Black text underneath the figure, spanning the entire bottom half of the t-shirt, translates to: “Are you able to eat money?!”.

Narrative

Three t-shirts (3483/4-6) with environmental messaging, collected by Mayer in Vanuatu at an artists’ centre in 2019. Vanuatu was one of the first Pacific Island countries to ban plastic bags.

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