Women's t-shirt
This bald eagle t-shirt for women carries John on the chest and his motto: "I don't shout. I tune." A bald eagle with a white head and black leather from my Animal Kinhood series, with a thunderous look and a thin voice that would rather make others sing.
Foto: Joshua J. Cotten / UnsplashHaliaeetus leucocephalus
I don't shout, I tune. I give half the city a voice and keep my own on the workbench, in a guitar I've spent years not finishing. Someday I'll play it for Carol.
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John's real voice is thin and high: it doesn't match a build like his in the slightest. He could have just hidden it away; instead he turned it into a way of working. "I don't shout, I tune," he tends to say when someone asks him for more volume or the high note. The noise, he says, is the machine's job; his is to leave everything at just the right point. It's his way of having a voice without raising it.
What John does is give a voice to others. He tunes, adjusts and builds instruments for others to sing through, and half of his city's music scene sounds thanks to that. Every instrument he builds is a sentence he couldn't say, said by someone else, louder and clearer. That's why this bald eagle t-shirt works so well as a gift for anyone who creates, plays or sings: it celebrates the one who works so that others can shine. I created it, Yago Partal, for Animal Kinhood, and there's more of John in his biography.
