My idea with this T-shirt was to try and capture the feeling you get when you use the expression ‘pulling on the rope’. After offering you an interpretation in the form of a product, I'm sharing with you another of my passions, drawing.
If you don't know what ‘pulling on the rope’ means, you're always overworking yourself, doing too much, mentally and physically.
Through my melancholic characters, I like to hide messages full of hope by transcribing emotional stages that we may all have felt once in our lives.
On each side of the character, you can see a wing, one crushed by the strings while the other remains intact. The wings represent the freedom of each and every one of us, and as you can see, that freedom begins to be crushed, captured by the sensation of pressure that you feel when you use the expression ‘pulling on the rope’.
If we follow the rope, we see it rise up to one of the character's horns, this time without causing any damage. The horns, here, represent our personality and our values. While anyone's freedom can be stolen, our values are things engraved in us that cannot be stolen, which is why they are represented in the form of sturdy, unattainable horns.
The rope ends up wrapped around the character's long neck, once again underlining the suffocation we feel at such moments. However, at the end of the rope is a small key that symbolises, quite simply, that each of us holds the key to our destiny!
To underline this positive solution, I've added a broken disc to the back of the character, to emphasise this liberation from the feeling of imprisonment.
To sum up, this drawing explains that no matter how difficult things get, thanks to our personality and our values, we make choices (which are not always easy) that are capable of turning our destiny in a new, positive direction.
