Description

In apparel, Bermuda Shorts really are a type of informal formal-wear – and in this assortment of documents, Bermuda Shorts may be the ideal metaphor for Wayne T. Patterson’s eventually significant but fun fictional design. Patterson creates such as the love child of Henry Miller and Mary Karr, with the contradictions that suggests — a thinker who believes best over a glass of good wine; an ex-Catholic nonetheless haunted by the picture of the Crucifixion; an irreverent political satirist whose patriotism flies the banner of another iconoclast, Thomas Paine. Patterson was raised with a foot planted in all of two sides — one in Washington DC, the Administrative Centre of the Kingdom as he calls it, where the wheels of energy whirl, and one in rural Ontario, where his Canadian mom insisted the household spend their summers.