"South Korea Roots" Heavy Blend Unisex Crewneck Sweatshirt

Nearly black lettering meets blue-grey grooves and thin white separations, giving South Korea Roots a cut-wood, weathered structure. The Heavy Blend Unisex Crewneck Sweatshirt turns the country name SOUTH KOREA into two compressed rows of tall, heavy capitals, with jagged breaks, splintered rims, and pointed reaches disturbing their otherwise blocklike weight. Narrow blue-grey marks run through the black like recessed grain. White openings hold between strokes and dark surrounding forms, so the packed centre never resolves into a solid mass.

Branches break out from letter tops and sides, most noticeably at the S, H, and K, while a broad charcoal, slate-blue, and pale-grey ribbon curls over SOUTH before tightening into a small inward spiral at the upper right. Under KOREA, a thick layered rootlike sweep bends toward the lower left and divides into long twigs. A few grey dots punctuate the open white spaces, making the branching edges feel tied to the letters instead of added around them. The words name South Korea in English, with no secondary wording interrupting the form.