I made these shoes from old magazines. These were part of my installation for the end of year exhibition at the University of Glamorgan. I wanted to them to represent isolation in a crowd, especially in busy shopping centres. Where it seems to be all about shopping and eating.
The adverts and glossy images represents the role of consumers. I placed them in a street scene. that you can see on the image below. Personally I feel lonely in the crowd. Rarely is there interactions with other people of which there are many.
I made these children's shoes from a comic
This project was about invisibility and neglected, over looked people in the mainstream of society. I used the back wall as it was, not boarded over. So the pipe work and cobwebs where part of the installation. I have represented homeless people with recycled materials.
The image below is part of my homeless figure coming out of the wall, using recycled material. I wanted this arm to be tactile, attractive, soft and textural.
Thinking about shoes, sexuality and consumers.
Shoes are often about as a way of judging a man on his shoes. They are very much a status symbol. I am interested in status in society how it has become a culture of judging each other on appearances and looks. This on one end of the scale
to
I over heard while at work that several nurses where raising funds to go abroad to help treat people without shoes for maggots in their feet.
What a shoe gulf
No comments:
Post a Comment