“In the last few years I have collected Hawaiian shirts. I am not a social guy, so I only get to wear them to the supermarket. I liked them slowly at first and once I got an amazing one I liked them a lot. I hung them on my wall and saw that they were a way for me to accept abstraction again as long as abstraction was presented in the reality of a shirt. Conversely, I don’t want something real on the shirt like a photo or a realistic painted palm tree.”

– Jerry Moriarty, to Chris Ware.