SCENE ON THE STREET : A Look to Dye For

You can keep your letters, slogans and politics, say these folks in Pasadena and Pomona. Take your linear thinking and fold it--the time has come for the Brain-T’ser. Tie-dye, which made a comeback during the Gulf War, has made the real chest nut pose a question, rather than furnish an answer. Am I You? Who am Eye? Is this swirl a shell or a whirlwind? Can any gathering of T-shirt wearers constitute a pictograph, the way any traffic jam presents a license-plate game? Do we read, left to right, “You fish for freedom; I swirl toward the light of the Grateful Dead?” Or what?