http://sharonkallis.com/2015/09/25/planting-my-feet-on-the-land-of-the-catalans-at-cacis/
My recent return to making footwear- and this time wearable- was urged
on in the urban cloth project, working with Tracy Williams and Mirae
Rosner, making sandals with dancers, and then having fun with Rebecca as
our research tangent continued. Rebecca in her recent blog post
on her own shoe show held this past summer summed up beautifully how
shoes as protection from the elements are a metaphor for our
relationship with nature- and the need to protect ourselves from nature.
The idea of a layer between ourselves and the world- our shoe is our
first form of defense, and also our most basic layer of disconnect from
our surroundings- that layer of rubber, plastic, leather, vinyl- what
have you-usually something synthetic- separates us from where we stand.....
Sharon Kallis
