The 才sai Line

Here are some T-shirt designs Jack has been working on. They will be part of his own T-shirt line 才sai which will be launched shortly. 才sai is a play of a Chinese character of Jack's name with the roman alphabets, and all designs are intended to reflect small pieces of his own playfully diabolical character. In the artist's own words, All these images plays around with first impressions and how there is always more than meets the eye.

Jack has provided a few words of his own to describe his thoughts and emotions that gave birth to the graphics:

GHOST WITH A BLADE

You have been cut! Blood drips from the wound, but how? Instead of a guardian angel, seems you may have a ghost friend that secretly cuts you, and takes pleasure from it. It is a twisted and crazy world, a city made from blood, a city the grows downwards, not up… nothing is definite and constant, everything is ever changing. Maybe i'm just feeling vulnerable at the moment, and exposed. 

BLOODY CASTLE

What at first seem like outline of a castle against a red sunset background, could also be blood dripping, however the innocent clouds and rainbow that floats away from the window, appear to suggest of innocence, a place of joy and happiness…Maybe, from the view of a some, a dracula, for example, such a place and setting is heavenly.
Everything has different viewpoints and perspectives, not everyone share the same feeling, nothing is as simple as black and white.

 COFFEE MURDER

At first glance it’s a simple cup of coffee, still hot and steaming, however on closer inspection, you notice the leg that hangs out from the cut, and the leaking which you first thought is coffee, now looks like blood pouring out of the cup… you also notice what at first seem like steam now have more details that may be spirits raising off the coffee. 

For the innocent, they could see only the coffee,
For the guilty, they see the body and the bloody...

Maybe, for the rare few, they will see a person bathing in coffee and indulging in the bath, thoroughly enjoying themselves.

Jack would welcome any feedbacks, comments for further development and improvements; as well as expressions of interests to his works.

*Posted on behalf of tsai.