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 […]
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 […]
Blue Suede Shoes
Shoes 79 & 80 Location: On Exhibit with Haywood County Arts Council, Waynesville, NC
Appalachian Stride
Inspired by finding a shoe along the Blue Ridge Parkway, I created another shoe with a mountain seen on the toe box.
Sightseeing
One day while driving around on the Blue Ridge Parkway, I pulled into a scenic stop to view nature beyond the parkway. After taking in the vast landscape, I noticed the cobblestone wall. On top of the wall was a single shoe. I imagine miles down the parkway, the family has stopped at a lookout […]
JD’s Shoe
My son was a very independent child. When his sister went off to kindergarten, we would walk her to the bus stop a house away. I don’t think it had been more than 3 or 4 days, and I said that it was time to take her. Sitting in front of the TV, he turned […]
Mud & Puppy Memories
Unless it’s raining, I take the dog for a walk in the neighborhood. While she’s sniffing everything in sight, I am taking in the trees, and flowers, and noticing who’s mowed, who needs to mow, and sometimes what things have been left outside. As we came up to one house, I noticed this very brightly […]
Demo Shoe
I created this shoe as a way to document all of the steps I take to create a basic sneaker, toward the goal of teaching this process. The colors are unique, not something you might find at a shoe store.
Having Fun, Kickin’ Back & Relaxed, How do shoes get on the road?
Simona dropped off a couple pairs of her shoes at the start of the project. This is a pair of fun colored Rocket Dog sneakers. She commented that she was beyond the days of wearing fun shoes like this. They had this cool torn texture on the uppers, and of course the Rocket Dog logo […]
Growing Up / Sparkle
With Baltimore 2019 finished, I decided to experiment with glass colors. Glass can have what is called a reaction when colors made from different materials fuse, creating interesting and often crisp line work. SPARKLE: My friend Shoshana informed me she was sending her beloved Ruby Red Slippers. Before tackling that kind of bling, I thought […]