Phonetically, hantologie and ontologie sound the same when spoken in French. An ontologie is the study of being, fully material — now. A hantologie is the study of things neither fully present or fully absent, neither fully material or fully immaterial, not fully now, or fully past, or fully future. it is a spectre which unsettles the idea of a stable present.

HAUNT uses the t-shirt to discuss displaced nostalgia— lean, troubled, athletic— collective amnesia RoutineDarling operates as a brand. producing this edition of fifty t-shirts individually, each is a product—egalitarian— through the mode of installation they collectively constitute a single artwork J.T Edward is an artist practicing primarily sculpture. they previously exhibited under IchikawaEdward. he is now a solo artist.