{"product_id":"nur-pangolin-de-sunda-camiseta-juvenil-impresion-integral","title":"Nur · Malayan pangolin · Youth t-shirt","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-short-desc\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eYouth t-shirt with the portrait of Nur, the Malayan pangolin, by Yago Partal. All-over print on cotton: the portrait of a kid who climbs trees without thinking, who watches the street from the fork of a frangipani, and who knows his neighborhood better from above.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- LONG_DESC --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis youth t-shirt of Nur carries the portrait of the Malayan pangolin printed across the full surface: light blue denim overalls, pale pink and white striped t-shirt, and the sand-colored scales covering his head and arms. All-over print on cotton, front and back. For fabric and construction details: **Fabric, fit and construction**. Sizes in **Size guide**.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## The frangipani on the ground floor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the void deck of Nur's block — the covered ground-floor space in Singapore's HDB blocks, where neighbors sit and children play — there's an old frangipani tree. The trunk is knotted, the gray bark cracks in plates, and the low branches form a fork two meters off the ground. Nur climbs up there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the fork he sees the street, the lights of the blocks across from him, the pavement where the neighbors who come back from the hawker centre walk. At that height the void deck looks different. The concrete benches, the table where Uncle Razak fixes bikes, the stretch of tile where Aminah sits at five in the afternoon. It all fits in one glance. It's his lookout. Aminah doesn't tell him to come down anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNur lives in Toa Payoh, a mature neighborhood of Singapore, in a two-bedroom HDB flat on the eighth floor, with his grandmother Aminah. Toa Payoh is working class, multicultural, with nearby parks and paths where sometimes, at night, wild pangolins cross. Aminah and Nur walk five minutes to school every morning. In the afternoon, they go down to the void deck. It's an extension of the flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## Climbing where others walk by\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first thing Nur did when he got to the void deck at age two was try to climb the frangipani. His arms weren't long enough. At four, he could already reach the first branch. At six, he goes up without stopping and without looking down. And when he comes down, the bark leaves a sweet resin smell on his palms that lasts until the evening bath. The claws of the Malayan pangolin are built for climbing: strong, curved, able to grip bark and branches. The prehensile tail supports the full weight of the body hanging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Nur, that translates into a child who climbs everything. The living room bookcase, the kitchen doorframe, the school playground structures. What other children avoid — the high branch, the low wall, the void deck railing — Nur looks at, calculates, and climbs. He does it quietly, without asking for help, without warning. Aminah discovered him one afternoon sitting in the frangipani fork when she thought he was down below playing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contradiction is that Nur, who climbs trees without hesitation, freezes on escalators in shopping centers. Natural heights are his. Artificial ones, with the mechanical movement and the crowded space, produce something that closes his body. He stands still at the edge, holding Aminah's hand, until she steers him around and they find the regular stairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## The view from above\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the frangipani fork, Nur sees things that can't be seen from the ground. The way the ants go up the trunk in a line. The pattern of cracks in the bark. The white and yellow flowers that fall when the wind blows. Sometimes he stays up there fifteen or twenty minutes doing nothing, just watching. Neighbors walk by underneath without looking up. Nur sees all of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt night, when he wakes — which is nearly every night, because Malayan pangolins are nocturnal and Nur reaches his activity peak when he should be sleeping — he looks out the window of the eighth floor. From there he sees the lights of Toa Payoh, the lit HDB blocks, the odd taxi crossing the street. Another perspective. Up, always up. Where there's quiet and you can look without anyone asking what you're doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe t-shirt is made to order: it's printed when you order it. No advance stock. Shipping and delivery conditions in **Shipping and returns**. If you want to know Nur whole — the tin of stones, the grandmother, the encounter with the wild pangolin — [it's all in his biography](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/nur\/).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA six-year-old pangolin in denim overalls who climbs frangipani trees and knows his neighborhood better from two meters up. If you're looking for [a t-shirt in his size](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/objects\/), there are more options for the same character in the Animal Kinhood collection. 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