Big Thief apologise for t-shirt design with “reckless, offensive imagery”

nme.com:

Big Thief have apologised for a recent t-shirt design, calling its imagery “reckless and offensive”.The band have recently been selling a t-shirt with an abstract design, which they confirm features “an illustration of cartoon purple arms and hands holding onto jail cell bars.”In a new post on Instagram, the band have addressed the design, and apologised for “the lack of attention we paid to this symbolism.”They wrote: “The jail cell was meant to be a metaphor symbolising imprisonment of the mind and spirit because of constructs, etc… The arms were intended to be purple so as to avoid realism and race all together but we feel that that thinking was misdirected.“We believe that something as pervasive, horrific and insidious as incarceration.