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While working on the Converse shoe series I started thinking about other types of footwear that could be produced from wire. One day I was with a friend of mine walking through the Nordstrom shoe department and was completely awed by the amount of different women’s shoes on display. Sandals, heels, boots, and all sorts of funky looking footwear that I had never seen before. What got my attention most, were these sandals called “gladiators”. To me, it seemed that this type of shoe provoked the most innovative and diverse creations of all the footwear on display. I decided to make my own versions of these sandals using a variety of material found in local hardware stores around San Diego. Once again, after producing the first model I became obsessed and created a mini-series of “Gladiator” type sandals.
Over the past couple months I began constructing shoes from thin gaged annealed wire. I used a low top Converse shoe that was laying around my room as a model for the first shoe. I wound up liking the shoe so much I began to create a series of low and high top converse shoes. The collection would later be shown at an art opening that my friends from the Wave Journal put together. P.S. > All shoes were made using one single piece of wire.
All this work was made under the artist Michael Kalish. I was hired specifically to make these flower pieces for clients and upcoming shows.
Working for the Academy gave me a chance to get very familiar with the wood shop. I started collecting scraps of beautiful wood that had been left behind by multiple furniture students. After a couple semesters I had a very nice collection but had no idea what I was going to do with it, and then it clicked. All those geometric drawings I had been creating could “easily” be formed into wood sculptures. After a lot of sweat, frustration, and close calls with the table saw I managed to finished a couple portraits.
