We all see them. Fuckin douchebags in Abercrombie & Fitch T Shirts and torn up jeans with spray on tans. You know, business majors; the one's who get jobs. It's obvious they either hate their life or are too stupid to ever know how to enjoy it. So what happens when someone goes to school for something they enjoy in an attempt to not end up like one of these people? His girlfriend has him pay for a ticket to Sweden so she can break up with him, and when he gets back he realizes that every white kid dumb enough to not play "the game" is also a graphic design major. Months later, Spencer is still living on his friend's couch, but the job search is looking better, Starbuck's is hiring!

The work of Spencer Amadeus II emphasizes reaction to the gradual breakdown and decay of the illusion of interpersonal understanding that provides the basis for all social interaction. Shortly after paying for his girlfriend to fly to Sweden only for her to break up with him and spending months on the road, sleeping on friend’s couches and trying to find a job, Spencer decided to transform his anger into designs that would be utilized for T-Shirts. He has combined cotton fabric with the innate absurdity and contradiction of life in such a way that only the person that is deep in denial would claim not to relate to his designs.

Behind the designs and T-Shirts is a skinny white kid with some problems. Sure, he doesn’t live in the third world, but who says people who eat all the food that the third world doesn’t get can’t have a few problems. Problems like screaming instead of talking and the general inability to express his thoughts and feelings in what is not a socially awkward T-Shirt, which miraculously, he managed to spell correctly. “I never created this to be a commercial product. I created this for me, for a release of my pent up aggressions. I just want people to be able to respond and relate to it.” Ironically enough, it is a form of honesty that provides the basis for these harsh designs which protest against the dishonesty of his surroundings. “…no one ever says exactly the way they feel, and I think I found a pretty mediocre way of expressing that.”