My Mountain Air Batik Ganesh Hoodie
This hoodie is actually my second MAB hoodie but was my first request when Mateo and I first spoke about what I wanted in a custom hoodie. Mateo was unsure he could pull it off at the time. Then he came to me and mentioned that he was ready to make the Ganesh but it would have to be on the back of the hoodie due to the size required to render Lord Ganesh properly. Of course I was fine with this!
For the rest of the layout I asked Mateo if he would mind doing the front, hood and sleeves to make it a full piece. He agreed to this and I proceeded to explain to him what I wanted to see on those areas.
The front of the hoodie is a mandala as requested. I sent Mateo several different mandalas that I liked and he used my favorite of them as a basis for what he made. In my opinion the hoodie mandala is better than the source because it has a more organic feel to it.
On the hood itself I asked him to put the Star of David AKA a hexagram and adorn the rest with smaller stars. I chose this symbol because of its astrological origins. Symbolizing fire and water in unity also male and female energy unified. Balance and Harmony is what it means to me.
Then came the sleeves. I told him for the sleeves I wanted some blood rune patterns but was unsure what exactly I wanted. It took me a week or so to mull it over and then while looking at the rune letters it came to me. On the right sleeve it reads “Know Thyself” and on the left sleeve it reads “Love Thyself”.
This hoodie completely floored me when Mateo first showed it to me! I was so amazed at all the detail and extremely pleased with the way he rendered all the ideas into a cohesive and beautiful wearable piece of art. I still love it to this day and my poor first MAB hoodie lives in retirement as result of this hoodie’s grandeur. Of everything I own this hoodie constantly receives compliments and oohs and aahs whenever I wear it and, as Tree said before me, I always tell people where they can get a MAB piece of their own! Thanks Mountain Air Batik for this amazing hoodie!!
Front Mandala
Lord Ganesha
Left and right sleeves
Star Hood
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Jason Beerbear and his custom Mountain Air Batik hoodie.
Sadly,many of the photos of the batiks done at this time were lost when the computer died during a back up(that will explain the text on many of these photos). The hoodie above was one that helped us do more than we thought we could do with batiks on super thick hemp/cotton blends. many people can't believe a lot of these hoodies are even batik work due to the weight of the fabric etc...
Hats off to you Beerbear!
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