Life Untamed - Sailfish SS Pocket Tee

Sailfish sometimes grow up to ten feet long. They are among the most prized of game fish. At 68 miles per hour, sailfish are the fastest of fish. Paradoxically, this painting is about the single moment in which the fish appears not to move. It is the split second after the sailfish first breaches and the fisherman catches his first sight of him. The adrenaline of the fisherman kicks in, time slows down, and the sailfish appears suspended for a moment before falling back below the surface, before the fight to reel him in resumes. It is the first glimpse of the fisherman's foe and the one that lives frozen in memory.

Peter Agardy masterfully uses white, blues and greens to create a shimmery light effect around the frozen fish, as if to make it appear that the fish is frozen in place, yet light bounces off him and scatters, as if the light itself could be slowed.

Uniquely among the art that Agardy has chosen for his signature series, this piece reflects the fish not in his natural surroundings exhibiting his usual behavior; instead it shows the moment that man interferes with the sailfish's world, and fighting, drags him into the fisherman's world.

Shore Thing uses a state-of-the-art color screen printing process to reproduce Agardy's art. The drama of the moment of the first sight of the sailfish is exquisitely reproduced on the shirt.

The shirts themselves are of the best quality preshrunk 100% ring-spun cotton, in a high stitch density fabric. They have shoulder-to-shoulder taping, a double-needle cover-seamed neck, and double-needle sleeves and bottom hems. The short sleeve shirts have a five-point left chest pocket.