I cast the shoes and bag from the charity shop – really pleased with how they came out, each shoe shows traces of use, specks of history. They have an odd shape to them – recognisable as a shoe yet appear as if something is missing or not quite right.
I decided to try and cast the baby pair of shoes in resin – the process was achieved in stages and unfortunately the first layer was distorted due to the age of the resin and the final layer cracked which was perhaps due to the reaction of pouring onto uncooled resin.
I was really disappointed in the mistakes and although not quite what I expected there are qualities to this that I like. I used smashed crockery within the layers with a finer layer on the top – similar to the distortion of memory or what we do with grief (see Stoner extract).