Vivid Hallucinations Large Tote Bag
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Two artworks. One bag. Bert Ernie has no idea how he made it.
He made Vivid Hallucinations about ten years ago, in a program he no longer uses, from a painting he can no longer identify. What survived is this: a mirrored kaleidoscope printed edge to edge, front and back, and the two sides aren’t the same.
Look at it long enough and you’ll see something in there. A face. A stage. A jungle. Everyone sees something different, and none of them are right. That’s the design doing its job.
16×20″. Holds 17.8 litres. Impossible to lose in a crowd.
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✂️ Cut and sewn to order. Never printed on a blank.
Description
Nobody asked for this bag. Bert Ernie made it anyway.
Somewhere around a decade ago, Melbourne artist Bert Ernie took a detail — a splatter, a corner, a few square centimetres of one of his abstract paintings — and fed it into a vector program. Which painting? He couldn’t tell you. That information is gone forever, along with whatever he was thinking at the time. What he can tell you is that he kept going: vectorising, layering, effecting, mirroring, chasing something he could only describe afterwards as Vivid Hallucinations. Then he stopped, presumably because it was 3am, and this is what was left on the screen.
It’s a kaleidoscope with a pulse. Mirrored down the centre line so your eye keeps trying to find the pattern and keeps not quite finding it. Reds and blues fighting on the front. Greens and golds crawling all over the back — because yes, the two sides are different artworks. Nobody sees both at once. You’ll carry one and the world behind you gets the other.
Here’s the thing about it, though. Bert wasn’t drawing anything. There is no face in there, no stage, no crowd, no forest. But people find them anyway, because that’s what human brains do with beautiful noise. Ask three people what they see on this bag and you’ll get three answers and a small argument. It’s a colour-drenched Rorschach test with cotton handles.
The words vivid hallucinations are printed into the artwork itself, half-buried under bump, shadow and layer effects, so the bag quietly introduces itself while pretending it hasn’t. He does that sort of thing.
Made properly, too — Printful’s ethical print-on-demand, printed to order, so no warehouse full of unsold bags and no mass production. This one is made because you asked for it.
- 100% polyester
- Fabric weight (may vary by 5%): 6.64 oz/yd² (225 g/m²)
- Maximum weight limit: 22lbs (10kg)
- Capacity: 4.4 US gal (17.8l)
- Large inside pocket with super snazzy design
- Comfortable cotton webbing handles
- Vibrant colors that won’t fade
- Printed, cut, and hand-sewn by our expert in-house team
Carry your groceries in it. Carry your laptop in it. Carry it empty, purely as a statement — 22lbs of capacity and not one gram of subtlety. Nobody else on the planet is making art like this, and nobody else in the queue will be holding this bag.
Too loud to ignore.
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