Els Roelandt & Catherine Willems (eds.) / Do You Want Your Feet Back? Barefoot Cobblers monogram

Els Roelandt & Catherine Willems (eds.) / Do You Want Your Feet Back? Barefoot Cobblers monogramThis publication is also available as a free open source pdf, download it here. What makes Catherine Willems work on future footwear so appealing is its promise to leapfrog more than 150 years of industrialization, with all its attendant afflictionsenvironmental destruction, depletion of natural resources, extreme global inequalityand bring us straight into a cleaner and fairer future, while taking cues from ancient knowledge and craft. The research

This recursive game of telephone could be an apt description of FreelingWaters’s work in general

unfortunately led to decay

of becoming someone else

vanish or decay

generated by the race towards industrialization and social emancipation

moving house seems like a more realistic way of escaping from the work than a white coat of paint on top of it

We are forced to wonder about the underlying histories of the various abandoned structures

Liv Liberg

And so the narrative finds its way somewhere in the middle

this publication provides all standard technical details with each trace: material

It is an intimate portrait of youthful innocence that reveals a play with clothes

who led several interviews and questioned the goal of the publication