After a period of ‘calm’ (such as it ever is) I am now at a time of back to back MAKING MADNESS. I have many projects about to happen one after the other with little breathing space in between.
So following on from ‘Fallling Fruit’ (one down, 3, maybe 4 if I’m lucky, to go, till Christmas) my next Multiple Participant Project is ‘Old Soles’ starting on Monday.
This will be 275 illuminated giant paper shoes made by the children of Rushden to take part in a perforamance celebrating the end of Global Footprint, a project concerning the Northamptonshire shoe trade. The performance will be by Watch This Space who are amazing, and for whom I did my first illuminated MPP (Fire Totems for ‘Gunpowder, Treason and Plot at Lyveden New Bield) project back in 2009.
The project is getting the children to look at the history on their doorstep, in their town and involving possibly their own families and years and years of heritage. There are some amazing old photos that have been unearthed. Here are some I used to make my sample shoe. I’m sure the ones that the kids make will be a million times more amazing!
