What do you really know about your T-shirt and what goes into making it?

Working with a local garment factory, I gathered scraps from T-shirts. In order to tell a deeper story about the provenance of apparel, I decided this would be the starting point for creating a book about the making of a T-shirt—constructed from paper made of scrap T-shirts, a book of shirts made from shirts. In the world of fast fashion, apparel is often quickly discarded, while books are typically kept as objects of décor or conversation. Transforming these shirts into a book became a way to preserve them rather than toss them aside, giving new permanence and meaning to what is usually treated as temporary.