Sole Searching

Sole Searching: The Point of Possession

The non-essential objects of desire we decorate our every day live with, pay homage to the experiences we have had more often than not. The souvenirs from holidays, trinkets from loved ones, they all hold a value, whether it be sentimental or monetary.

There is an art to being a consumer. The psychological interaction with the things we buy, is more in depth or enlightening than we first might think.

For example our individual psychographics, and our attitudes towards the point of possession. Emotional shopping.  A very dangerous territory, you can get it so right and you can get it so wrong. I have made some of the worst...no courageous, actually no; deluded decisions of my life in sales departments.

 I’m a bit of a magpie, anything that sparkles get my full undivided attention, and I have a lot of collections… of lots of different things, and most of the collections at points have spiralled out of control. Or been left when the burning desire resided, then reignited upon a trip to the loft on a rainy day...

This series of mono prints is a celebration of the shoe collection I own to date. At the point of beginning the series there were 50 pairs.  They have helped to illustrate some of the most interesting and thought provoking times in my adult life. Happy, sad, amusing or hair raising each pair has a tale or two to tell.  My work is narrative and the use of mono print for this series helps to encapsulate and immortalise the essence of the sentiments behind the shoes. They act as an aide memoire, almost like a photo album, with the process of mono print, they have been extracted from reality somewhat and into an whimsical world of their own.