MY ISLAND OF LOST NOISE
A NEW ORLEANS ORIGINAL MERCHANDISE BRAND
BOTE is about staking your claim. Being the artist you want to be. Freelance and commercial work is a wonderful way to build community. However, your art yearns to grow free. BOTE is the grove where my work is overgrown. I seek to build a market for the ideas that strike me as the most resonant. That embody everything I wish to express: the serious, silly, resolute, fleeting. I am very happy with how this project has taken form, and excited to see where it goes as other artists resonate with it. Artists must stake their claim, express their truth. They must tell their story. BOTE is how I tell mine.
BOTE started out of a need to mass market the designs I have been sitting on for far too long. I spent the years since Undergrad freelancing and collaborating with some amazing clients and colleagues in Southeast Louisiana. However, I needed a grove where my work could grow like weeds: free and unfettered.
BOTE started out of a need to mass market the designs I have been sitting on for far too long. I spent the years since Undergrad freelancing and collaborating with some amazing clients and colleagues in Southeast Louisiana. However, I needed a grove where my work could grow like weeds: free and unfettered.