Beautiful Rubbish

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Shoes and relationships

And I can hear my mother saying
"Every old sock meets an old shoe"
Isn't that a great saying?
"Every old sock meets an old shoe"
Here come the Hills of time

I love Kate Bush her music is always great to quote from. I like that a good relationship described as an old sock meets an old shoe. Comfortable and a good fit. Shoes have so much symbolism. including women's sexuality

Paula Rego's painting;

The Cadet and his Sister

Cinderella's Glass Slipper

http://bibliofeminista.com/post/2962105220/on-cinderella-glass-slippers-fur-slippers-freud-and

Invisible in a crowd wearing paper shoes

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