John Currin

kind of grand art.

I remember one, my mom, when we, I guess we were temporarily pretty poor, I think once we, when we moved to, not poor, poor, but you know,

tight with money.

When we first moved to the East Coast and my mom would make my clothes, I remember she made me this pair of pants that from a bedspread or something, it was from a, material came from, it was green, like the color of this wall.

And it was fur.

It was like plastic, you know, it was like polyester fur.

So they were green fur pants.

And I didn't think anything about it.

I wore them.

Actually, you know, that was in California, but I wore them to school.

And without thinking about it, and the kids, I guess, justifiably, totally made fun of me.

Although they would probably be pretty amazing now, but I remember that was a terrible humiliation.

And I didn't have much, you know, I don't know.

And that's the thing about the 70s is,

I do remember strict rules, not from my parents, but from other teenagers, about you absolutely couldn't wear pants that were too short.

That was kind of the worst thing you could do.

And they had to be flare.

If you wore straight leg pants, you got made fun of.

If you're, like, things about, weird things about, like, your sneakers, if they were too clean, that would be something that you got made fun of.

Like, you'd dirty them up after you got them.