‘I Recycle Materials, but I’ — Betye Saar Quote Tee | Wear Words Black-on-White Statement Shirt — Muscle Tank

“I recycle materials, but I also recycle emotions and feelings.” Betye Saar told NPR in 2006 that her assemblages reclaim far more than found objects — they carry the anger of growing up under segregation, the way her 1972 piece The Liberation of Aunt Jemima armed a racist figurine with a rifle. She works as if objects hold memory and spirit, so recovering a discarded thing means recovering the feeling fused to it — and turning that charge back on whatever made it.

**Bella+Canvas 3483 — Muscle Tank (Black only for now, Color finish).** A white option isn’t available from our printer at the moment — we’ll add it the moment it is. 100% combed & ring-spun cotton, 4.2 oz, 30 singles. Unisex muscle fit, crew neck, cut-off sleeves, wide armholes, side-seamed, pre-shrunk. Care: machine wash cold with like colors, tumble dry low, no bleach, cool iron inside-out (never iron the print).