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All Six

 




This piece, entitled All Six, consists of six pairs of fabric slippers. Each one represents a member of my immediate family. My youngest sibling is in high school and he has the shoe size of an adult man. I chose to depict our shoes as child sized, since I still cling to the image of my siblings as small kids, no matter how old we get. Downtown Saint Augustine is the landscape for this piece as it's a place full of fond memories of my family coming to visit me during my time at Flagler. While we never came to Saint Augustine as children, that childlike image of us, as we explored the city with our parents for the first time is one I hold dear. While this is my personal connection to the work, I also wanted to create a certain level of anonymity with the empty shoes, that could represent anyone from tourists roaming through the city, to a loved one you once walked with, but now only have memories of.

The bottom of each shoe and closeup of stitching.

My Mom walking on the fort.

My dad and brothers inside the fort.

My family lounging at Saint Augustine Beach and me and my sister in the college courtyard.

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