You Know What You Should Do?
Shoe 114Available I’ve been making cowboy boots since the first year of the project. With this boot, I opted not to decorate the wheat pattern because I wanted to try molding it differently than past boots. I also knew that this boot was going to represent an experience I had when sharing my shoes. In […]
If These Walls Could Talk
Shoe 113Available When Jud was remodeling the house, he came across this shoe in the wall. We don’t really know why it was there or who it belonged to. It’s the size of a child’s foot, but clearly was made for a woman, hard to believe anyone had feet that small. The shoe has Edwin […]
Outgrown
Shoe 112 Outgrown is the 3rd iteration of “My Cowboy Boot”. I love the challenge of creating the boot – the height, shape and using glass to create the wheat-stitching. Here’s the story that is shared with the boots: When I was a young boy, maybe 4 or 5, I had a pair of cowboy […]
Ruby Valentino
Shoe 109 Location: On Exhibit with Haywood County Arts Council, Waynesville, NC Most of the time when I create the shoes for this project, i stick pretty close to the original design of the shoe. WIth Ruby Valentino, I wanted to explore the texture of the leather through the contrast of black and white. As […]
Words Hurt II
Shoe 108 This is the second edition of Words Hurt, created during the initial phase of the Shoes as Storytellers Project. With this shoe, my goal was to make the walls even thinner to allow more light to pass through. Here’s the original story: When I was in junior high school, 7th grade, I was […]
Orange You Excited to Run?
Shoes 110 & 111Available Individually, or as a Pair A friend brought a pair of sneakers to me early on in the project. He found them at the recycling center and thought of my project. Aside from being well worn, they didn’t have a very strong story. So I decided these would be a great […]
Toddler Work Boots
Shoes 106 & 107 Location: On Exhibit with William King Museum of Art, Abingdon, VA I had this adorable pair of boots on my shelf for awhile, and decided to try blending the colored glass powder to achieve a color similar to the Carhart mustard yellow. Here’s a video of the boots showing a 360° […]
Experimentally Sneaking
Shoe 101Available This shoe kicked off 2025 as my experiments shoe. The sole and upper were created in the usual way, but then I toyed around with a technique by Karen Lise Krabbe out of Denmark called Gelled Glass. I was hopeful this technique would work for creating insoles. It did not, but that doesn’t […]
Plushicorn Slippers
Shoes 104 & 105Available I created this fun pair of unicorn slippers for an exhibit in Waynesville, NC called Textures. I thought the unicorn image was fun, particularly with the different views, and wanted to capture the furriness of children’s slippers against the embroidered imagery. I also experimented with lusters on these, which create a […]
Kint-Sari Noire & Natural
Shoes 102 & 103 Location: On Exhibit with Haywood County Arts Council, Waynesville, NC After Sari’s mom passed away, she was cleaning out the closets and came across some fantastic shoes for my project. I received a box with four pairs of shoes. This is the first pair I’ve cast. What makes this pair particularly […]