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| Leather work shoes is a story about my family. I bought these shoes when intuition
said that my parents would divorce. They were purchased in 1968 the summer after high school. My father
paid for family clothes, but I saw something. My parents divorced the following summer
and the shoes carried that tumultuous memory. Eight years later, in 1976, I drew the worn leather shoes. Although badly worn, I couldn't throw them out until the story was told. The same year an art dealer saw the picture and said 'do them over' <> later I understood she wanted a polished product for sales <> but the story was about buying these shoes <> it was not about art <> perfect or not, the story and the art happened once and never again. Over the years, I re-drew my shoes several times because of what the art dealer said <> each time telling the art dealer-shoe story, but never the original story again. |
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| Tennis shoes 2002 Colored pencil on paper 14 x 17 |
Tennis shoes 2000 <> pencil on yellow notebook paper |  Shoes from a larger composition Sharpie on paper - lightened with photoshop  Photo of my tennis shoes with bolster correction on right foot due to injury |
Shoe and pear Oil pastel on paper |