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Over the past few months, me and my family have been slowly teaching ourselves how to screen print in order to make a family t-shirt project. The designs are inspired by Montréal’s black and white metro station name signs, which are sometimes vandalized to alter the names in funny ways. ‘Atwater’, for example, has ‘C’ added to make ‘Catwater’.

My son (above, on the left) wanted to represent the Montréal metro’s benches, where each of the 68 stations has a completely unique design. He drew the bench from ‘De La Savane’ and modified it to ‘De La Banane’ (of the Banana).

For those who need a bit of help in French, the other shirt has the following names:
Atwater → Catwater
Angrignon → Grognon (grumpy)
Laurier → Riez (to laugh)
Outremont → Autrement (otherwise)

We made a limited run printed on upcycled shirts bought at thrift stores, and sold them at a small garage sale in front of our house.