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City of Shoes Installation with Floating World

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Installation during SOMA Spring Open Studio, 2011

City of Shoes

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Installation for Hidden Cities Exhibition at New Century Artists Gallery, Chelsea, NYC

2010 Sculpture   16"x15"x7"  


I come from the City of Shoes. The inhabitants look like everyone else, but they work in shoemaking and tanning leather. They butcher our meat, dispose of the dead. They are lowly street musicians, ringing bells and pounding drums, walking advertisements for telephone sex. They live among us, but are invisible, because what they do disgusts us. This pile of paper shoes is all we need to see -- clean, shining, undefiled.
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