In the spirit of the Everyday, I decided to use rather unremarkable blue shoes. I then assaulted them with various paints and things until they became something upon which someone could remark.



With no real concept other than my usual drive ( to create things which may or may not be grand metaphors for metaphysical concepts ) and the vague idea that I wanted to cover the laces in stones I set out on this art-venture.



I crushed stones ( lava borrowed from my destructathon ) and covered the laces in silver paint and the ground up stone powder. Upon tying the shoes together to see if the odd laces would hold the idea to contrast the two shoes, one in a heavenly light and the other as a brutal depiction of shoe hell, hit me like a poorly secured shoe falling from a telephone wire. With the connector being the earthly laces I knew this symbolism would be perfect.

I pounced on the first shoe with vigor, and it soon oozed pink paper and pink wings. I did my best to keep the metal bits shiny and paint-less and gave the rest of the shoe an even coat of candy apple red. The heaven shoe's laces were tied in a manner that formed parallel boxes and looked quite orderly.



Meanwhile the hell shoe marinated in white glossy enamel in order to lighten the color. I drove nails and other various metal bits through it and pooled red spray paint at the points where the metal bits entered and exited the shoe in order to give it a gory effect. The laces were tight and disorderly, ultimately leading out a hole in the back of the shoe to form a sort of shoe-noose.



In short order the two shoes were attached to one another by the laces and displayed proudly in a tree near a very large church in my area. It was surprisingly difficult to throw the shoes, one lightr and the other heavy and full of metal, to any kind of substantial height. Eventually I simply climbed the tree and looped the laces around a branch a few times.