Innerworld Supply

Memento Mori / Memento Vivere hand-pulled across dark denim jeans

Arlo Running Club

10.8.26

Exhibit 001

A Collective & Universe of Creativity

“I Was Born To Create, Love, And Question”

Rec · Loop

Transmission 01 // Discipline & Motion [Loop]

Series: Transmission 001

Pressure Is
A Privilege

Recorded before sunrise, unedited. Pressure is a privilege — the loop holds that idea on repeat. No score, no cuts, just the rhythm underneath the work.

Location
Houston, TX
Format
16mm // Looping
Runtime
00:47
Status
Live // Looping

Studio Audio // Ambient Loop

Field recording, in-studio — Houston, TX

Output // Physical Pieces

Reconstructed Levi's 501 denim, red distressed screenprint on back panel and thigh

IWS‑001

Reconstructed Levi’s 501 [Red Distressed Print]

● Sold

Hand‑pulled water‑based screenprint on vintage Levi’s 501 denim. Back panel & thigh hit: “I was born to create, love, and question.” Hand‑finished. // Edition: 1‑of‑1 artifact, size 30x30

Black denim with Memento Mori and Memento Vivere calligraphy across back pockets and thighs

IWS‑002

Black Denim [Memento Mori / Memento Vivere]

○ Donated

Hand‑screenprinted fine‑line calligraphy script across back pockets and leg panels. White discharge ink on washed black denim. // Edition: 1‑of‑1 artifact

Waffle-knit thermal with crosshair target chest print and Memento Mori / Memento Vivere sleeve script

IWS‑003

Waffle Thermal [Born To Create X Memento]

● Sold [Inquire]

Heavyweight waffle‑knit thermal. Sleeve calligraphy: “Memento Mori” & “Memento Vivere.” Chest crosshair target & inverted manifesto print. // Edition: 1‑of‑1 artifact, size L

Performance athletic long-sleeve top with 'Pressure Is A Privilege' chest print and IWS stencil hit

IWS‑004

Athletic Long‑Sleeve Top [First Pressure]

● Archived

Performance athletic knit. Front chest: “Pressure is a privilege” / Innerworld Supply, with slanted IWS stencil shoulder hit. // Edition: Studio sample 001, 1‑of‑1

Black cotton tee with halftone portrait print and Memento Mori script on the back

IWS‑005

Bipolar Portrait Tee [Memento Mori]

○ Archived

High‑contrast halftone screenprint on vintage washed black cotton tee. Script neck hit. // Edition: 1‑of‑1 artifact

Grey pullover hoodie with Grace flag chest graphic and Memento Mori / Memento Vivere sleeve script

IWS‑006

Born To X Memento Hoodie [Grace / Stars & Stripes]

● Sold

Heavyweight pullover hoodie. Chest hit: “Grace — I was born to create, love, and question” beneath a distressed flag graphic. Sleeve & back script: Memento Mori / Memento Vivere. // Edition: 1‑of‑1 artifact

Reconstructed vintage New York Yankees hoodie with Born To Create screenprint worked into the graphic

IWS‑007

Craft Born To Hoodie [Reconstructed Vintage Yankees]

● Donated

Vintage New York Yankees hoodie, deconstructed and reprinted. “I was born to create, love, and question” worked directly into the original graphic. // Edition: 1‑of‑1 artifact

Reconstructed vintage Levi's denim with Born To Create print on the front thigh

IWS‑008

Reconstructed Levi’s [Born To Print]

● Donated

Vintage Levi’s denim, hand‑screenprinted front thigh: “I was born to create, love, and question.” Light distressed wash. // Edition: 1‑of‑1 artifact

Dark denim with Memento Mori and Memento Vivere calligraphy across both front thighs

IWS‑009

Memento Denim [Mori / Vivere]

● Donated

Dark wash denim, fine‑line calligraphy across both front thighs: Memento Mori / Memento Vivere. // Edition: 1‑of‑1 artifact

Full IWS marathon look: custom long-sleeve tee, ski mask, and shorts

IWS‑010

IWS Marathon Fit [Race Day Uniform]

○ Archived

Custom long‑sleeve tee, ski mask & shorts — worn start to finish on marathon day. Back print: prayer script & Memento Mori sleeve hit. Mask: compass crosshair mark. Shorts: IWS hip hit. // Race‑day archive piece, not for sale

Signals // External Inspiration

Curated art, Pinterest archives, designer interview excerpts, and cultural references.

High-contrast halftone portrait study
Halftone Study // Ref: Prefontaine & Kanye Series
First screen exposure and squeegee laid out in the studio Studio Artifact // First Screen Exposure
Worm's-eye view of a grey concrete building
Margin Note // Archive

Discipline is the part no one posts.

Moody portrait, jacket, low light

Interview Excerpt // In The Studio

Rick Owens // The New York Times

Streetwear detail, orange jacket accent against concrete
Proof Sheet // Type

Pressure Is A Privilege

Innerworld Supply™

Original studio journal notes: Protected by God, born to create, love, and question. Studio Notes // Journal Artifact
Black and white photo of a tall modern building
Stencil Mark // Shoulder Hit

IWS

Found Note

Reference everything. Copy nothing.

Ink jars used for screen printing

03 // The Reason
& The Why

Creativity was never meant to live inside a single frame. It doesn't end at the edge of a canvas, stop at the hem of a garment, or wait for you to cross a finish line — it moves through all of it, restless and unfinished. Innerworld Supply exists because that motion needed somewhere to land.

This isn't a shop built to move product. It's an ongoing record — hand-pulled prints on deadstock fabric, reconstructed pieces built from what already existed, sitting beside the references and images that shaped the thinking behind them. Physical output and outside inspiration, given equal weight, because neither means much without the other.

What holds it together is discipline — the kind that shows up before anyone's watching, in a print shop at 2am or three miles into a run nobody asked you to take. Every creator borrows from someone. IWS is built on that idea: take the spark, credit where it's due, and use it to build a world that's unmistakably your own.

About //
Not The Point

The person behind Innerworld Supply isn’t the focus. Call it a translator, a messenger — a conduit creativity happens to move through, not the source of it. Still, if you’re going to follow something, it felt right that you should know who’s steering it.

Who I Am

Not a fashion designer or a label executive. Just a maker, runner, and translator working out of Houston, TX. Someone obsessed with the cross-section of endurance, distressed fabric, and visual culture. IWS is my scratchpad and living archive.

What I Care About

Sweat equity and discipline over talent. The process no one posts: burning screens at 2am, 1-bit halftones, hand-pulled ink, raw seams, thrifted canvas, and the soundtrack that drives it. Creativity isn't exclusive — it’s earned through motion.

The Story

IWS started in July 2025 as an ugly hoodie mockup that never went anywhere. It stalled, came back, stalled again — until a notebook in November 2025 turned it into something real: my own designs, on screens I coated and burned myself. Read the record ↓

Origins // The Record

Started, stopped, started again. Unpolished and in order — every false start stays in the archive.

Entry 00
07.2025

Journal 001

The first attempt: a hoodie “designed” on a print-on-demand site. It was ugly, honestly. It never left the screen.

Status // Unreleased — then AWOL

Back print:
“Journal 001: I am still becoming who I was meant to be.
Innerworld Supply”

Entry 01
09.2025

Break Your Limits

Back on the same site. A 5-panel running hat — “Break Your Limits” on the front, a sportsy IWS mark on the back. The mark studies from that week survived. The hat didn’t.

Status // Unreleased — AWOL again

Early IWS logo studies: circular IWS badge, IWS wordmark, and a W monogram
Mark Studies // 09.19.2025

Entry 02
11.2025

The Notebook

Picked it back up with a notebook and no plan — writing down anything that came to mind about IWS. “Pressure Is A Privilige” came out of those pages. Just letters, but the first design that was actually mine. “I Was Born To Create, Love, And Question” came a day later.

Margin note // “Privilige” is spelled wrong on the original. Took almost a year to notice.

Notebook page from the November 2025 brainstorm
The Notebook
Original Pressure Is A Privilige design sheet with IWS badge, Innerworld Supply, Houston
Design 001
Original I Was Born To Create, Love, And Question design sheet in typewriter type
Design 002

Entry 03
11.2025

First Screens, First Pieces

Coated the screens, burned the designs, pulled the prints — all by hand. Getting the emulsion to lay down and the exposures right took forever. It was fun though. Piece 001: “Born To” on an old white tee. Piece 002: “Pressure” on a white Gymshark long sleeve.

Status // First two IWS pieces

The first hand-coated, hand-burned IWS screen
First Screen
First Pressure Is A Privilige print on a white Gymshark long sleeve
Piece 002

Entry 04
12.2025

Memento Mori / Memento Vivere

New design, new screen. Printed on old denim lying around and listed on Depop. Not a single one sold. Most were donated. Remember to live, remember you must die.

Status // 0 sold — the design came back anyway (see above)

Memento Mori / Memento Vivere print on blue denim
Memento // Denim

Raw Cuts // Unused Footage

Not everything makes the final cut — but it still says something. Test rolls, behind‑the‑scenes, process before the polish. Site‑exclusive, for anyone far enough into the archive to want it.

Outtake 001

Unlogged // Test Roll

○ Locked — Join To Unlock

Outtake 002

B‑Roll // No Audio

○ Locked — Join To Unlock

Outtake 003

Contact Sheet // Unedited

○ Locked — Join To Unlock

Unlock The Archive ↓