This Land Is Your Land
2000
leather shoes, steel, plastic
The wing-tipped shoes allude to hopes and ambitions, aspirations and the dreams of self with rights assumed to be inalienable. The artificial grass inserts and the long staking nails, acknowledge issues of grounding and immobility. This Land Is Your Land is a nod to the folly of ownership. While admitting to the whim and frolic of all that one wishes to be... it counterpoints, that in the end, one can only lay claim to the ground upon which one is currently standing and the stake in one’s convictions.
All images and text copyright Walter Kopec.