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