How to work with garments? All of them. Those that cover or protect, hide or expose our body. Function and use...
What about shoes? I have made a statemet in order to ¨walk alongside women¨. Displaced women by war or violence. I haave partiipated in several exhibitions with sculptures about Violence Against Women. For some time I have had the idea of working with their worn shoes. In May, at Chandler´s birthday I comment the idea of the Installation to my friend Claire: the question about covering our bodies and where this is taking me by the hand and also about the desire to work with shoes in a Labyrinth. "Do them both!" she said. And we talk about it... Yes, why not? I told her about our experience with labyrinths as a spiritual path. Working with labyrinths has been a long experience with my community of friends in Bogotá, since about 20 years ago. The group continues with the guidance of Padre Jorge Julio Mejia SJ and there is a Yahoo-group with more than 500 people called ¨Laberinto¨.
I start to write, make sketches, discuss the idea with my family other friends and artists and slowly it takes shape. I will make a mixed Media Installation combining four artistic expressions: sculptures with garments, a labyrinth to walk with women´s worn shoes, some of my photos and the core of it all, a large sculpture... a seed?.
