Lead Shoe series

"After years of working on other sculptural projects, I've tapped into the reservoir of professional experience that had engaged me for nearly two decades: footwear design. I work with lead for its malleability, its archetypal and psychological resonance, its danger, weight, beauty, its protective qualities, its recyclability, its permanence, with an aim to expose the inherent contradictions of the fashion industry in our extravagant, consumerist lifestyle. From the original challenge of realistic renderings of basic footwear styles, lately even more abstract forms have emerged. This work highlights the ways that style can assert, or hide, one’s inner nature, sensually, or grotesquely, even as it offers cover from physical and psychological challenges, often becoming symbolic of a person’s fears and insecurities, or exhibitionism and daring, while having the potential to threaten or to protect."

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