Something Broke T-Shirt by Mariela Scafati

2021
20 x 30 inches
Design: Mariela Scafati

Drawing upon Something Broke, Mariela Scafati’s installation at Storefront as well as her work as one of the founders of Serigrafistas Queer (Queer Silkscreeners), Storefront produced custom t-shirts and tote bags with an original design by Scafati that reads “I just connected to disconnect—I just disconnected to connect.”

Something Broke is a diary of the personal and the collective, in the form of paintings that are both poems and protest signs. It’s a window into the artist’s body as a painter, a teacher, an activist, a queer silkscreener, and—as of recently—a mother. It’s a spectrum of visceral crimsons and pinks that emerge from the artist’s bonds of affection through activism, and from an entanglement of art, politics, and life.