6/29/2006: Animatronic flesh shoe

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Slight sent this along, and it sort of fits well with yesterday's item, the gumball Hummer. This is also edgy art; it's called Animatronic Flesh Shoe, by artist Adam Brandejs. Not actual flesh, but a good simulation; and the point is, when you're looking at this thing, it moves:

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The shoe is stitched together with multiple pieces of latex rubber cast out of moulds made from my own skin. The shoe's toe and heel raise and lower as it occasionally vibrates/pulsates, and twitches on the floor as if it were still alive. The movement is not constant, and usually causes people to jump back while they are in the middle of leaning in for a closer look.

Artist statement
It's a Nike shoe stapled together with human flesh, twitching...

Other than simply being twisted, this piece comments on issues of sweatshop labour and content ownership. Each piece of skin is therefore different in colour, size, and texture and the Nike Logo is done in white, slapped overtop of all the other colours.

We live in a culture disconnected from what it is doing to itself and others, we choose to ignore rather than deal with the reality we have created for ourselves. This piece ultimately comments on this simple idea.

But like much art, you can enjoy this on many levels if you wish.