We have all been historically affected by migration and each in different ways. With this project I invite people to share their
shoes as statements of where they have been and where they are going thus sharing movement and walking in each
other's footsteps...

Hemos sido históricamente afectados por la migración. Con este proyecto invito a la gente a compartir sus zapatos
como declaraciones de donde ellos han sido y donde ellos van así compartiendo el movimiento y andando en los
pasos de cada uno...

Sunday 18 September 2011

Arriving at Venezuela

Leaving Trinidad & Tobago, from the Pier 1 port in Chaguaramas, Port of Spain

Reaching Venezuela, from port Guiria
The morning after the launch I made the journey to Venezuela by the ferry service from Pier 1. Crossing the waters that separate us watching the sliver of Venezuelan land grow.

While in Venezuela I left the shoes with Eliseo Solís Mora for him to continue the journey and process from Venezuela making this project a collaboration/ inter-country shoe trade.
To learn more about Eliseo Solís Mora:
His blog - http://espaciolevintanteapuntesdearte.blogspot.com/

His flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/eliseosolismora

His Tumblr - http://eliseosolismora.tumblr.com/


      

Travelling Shoe Launch in Trinidad & Tobago


 Pictures of the launch, courtesy Richard Rawlins and Rodell Warner


From the afternoon until 10pm there was a trickle of people bringing their shoes for the exchange. I started collecting a few days earlier from people who were not able to make it to the launch at Alice Yard. In the end there were fifty pairs of shoes.

I see this merely as the beginning and the process orchestrated by all participants is what defines the project. So there may end up being more than one collection in each country so that those who said they could not bring the first time can still have a chance to do so at a later point.

The Shoes making the journey from one continent to the next





 Arnaldo James helping create the signage and a detail of Richard Rawlin's designer shoes