In my journey to cover more visual arts, I have found yet another thing I must add to my budding art collection -- a shoe shrine!
A few people are doing shoe shrines: Melanie Hill Guion and blogging artistic types like Kay Cox, but by far the shrine I HAVE TO HAVE is a selection from Carol Cutshall, aka Shezilla (it's a rockabilly-punk-surf band thing from what I understand). Her Elvis shrine is featured at the top of this blog.
Shoe shrines call to the Mexican Santo shrine tradition, and honoring someone via mixed media is part of the form. In fact, shrines are inherently homemade, and Cutshall uses hers to celebrate famous musicians. Still, the idea of a shoe as frame is at once whimsical and genius.
I am on a mini-quest to track down Ms. Cutshall as I've found a gallery that carried some of her stuff but has lost touch with her.
Shoe shrines will invade Winston-Salem this weekend, as more than 100 have been created to honor Arts District mover and shaker Kelly Petersen. Article to follow on Thurs.!
