White t-shirt with an all-over repeat print of traditional style flash designs, including retro televisions, a raised hand with a banner, roses and cassette tapes.

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Retro TV and hand flash repeat print on a t-shirt

Traditional · Mixed · Flash

A white t-shirt is shown flat with an all-over repeat print of tattoo-style flash designs. The motifs include retro televisions with slogan text, grey hands with ribbon banners, red and green roses, cassette tapes and small circular badges. The bold outlines and flat fills of red, teal, black and grey sit on an off-white background.

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Dessa had three hundred and forty-two televisions in the back of the lock-up, and every one still hummed when she plugged it in. The flash sheets hung above the bench in no order she could explain, least of all to her landlord, who came each Thursday to ask whether she had sold anything yet. She had sold a teal cassette deck to a man from Walsall and a red-and-green rose to a lad who wanted it on his ankle. That was the trade. Nobody bought the hands.

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The sign on the far wall had come from a closing shop in Hull, its letters flaking: WE DON'T BELIEVE WHAT'S ON TV. Her grandfather had painted it after the February the power went out and he sat in front of a dead set for six hours, watching the snow on the glass and refusing to change channel, as though the picture might come back if he was patient enough. It never did. He said it was the only honest thing a television had ever done.

On the Thursday the landlord came, she was not at the bench. She was in the yard with a grey hand she had cut from card and pinned to a broom handle, lifting it against the sky and trying to work out how a ribbon should hang when there was no wind at all. The landlord watched her for a while. "You're not selling those," he said. "No," she said. "I'm waiting for one to look like it's moving."

He left shaking his head. She carried the broom inside, switched on the nearest set, and let the static roll up the screen until the banner on the hand seemed, just for a second, to lift and turn over in the grey light.

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