The end of Alex Wharton’s “The Gardener,” which was embroidered inside Lewis’s jacket, reads:
“I hope the sun pours
light upon our skin. And we
melt into each other,
into everything. Maybe the trees
will speak, as they sometimes do.
Whispers from the shade.”
Lewis also explained the thorn jewelry near the collar of his ensemble was “really to show the pain through the slavery trade at the time.” He added, “I tried to get in deep.”