"TWENTY-FOUR" by Rachel Gibson
doll shoes, wooden doll feet,
reclaimed velvet & acrylic paint
13.25"H x 13.25" W x 3" D
$290
"Shoes are a sign of human life, human activity. If I see a stray sock on the side of the road, I think, 'someone lost a sock', but if I see a shoe on the side of the road, I think, 'someone lost their life here'.
"We 'walk a mile' in someone's shoes & also have 'big shoes to fill'. Once, we memorialized our first pair of shoes in bronze. Now, we remove them when we enter the house to leave the world behind us. We even suggest to our children that one glass slipper can help find true love.
"Shoes are a sign of human life, human activity. And we can only wear one pair at a time." --Rachel Gibson
R.L. (Rachel) GIBSON works as a mixed media artist with work in galleries from New York to Los Angeles and collections around the world. A happily-married, mother of one, Gibson lives & works in Marion, Virginia in the southeast United States. In addition to found object work, her practice currently explores work that overlays watercolor with embroidery. The hand-stitched component of this work lends movement to otherwise still media while paying homage to the band of quilting women she calls family.