http://vimeo.com/92132180

Your Shoes Are Rubbish

from Billy Turvey
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 7:42 AM

This Project is about the out of sight and out of mind legacy of the
modern consumer. Taking the shoe as a prime example: What used to be a
hand crafted item made to last and designed to be repairable, now spends
an almost insignificant amount of time on the ground doing what it was
made for.
As soon as the first component on a modern shoe fails, the pair is often
discarded. The mass produced shoe is now essentially disposable. After
you've finished with them they're just another (two) piece(s) of rubbish
that are likely to still be around long after your own body has
decomposed; we're all leaving behind ourselves a rubbish legacy. With
the development of plastics came a utopian promise to change the world,
and change the world it has, plastic has become so materially ingrained
in our lives and environment that it's becoming increasingly
indistinguishable and inseparable from nature. We took this as a
starting point and set out to mine this plastic pollution, we collected
rubbish from the west and the south coast of England and the banks of
the river Thames. Following this we made a pair of shoes out of the
rubbish that all our consumer goods are destined to become. A satirical
critique of the legacy we consumers leave in our wake. Far from
suggesting we all wear shoes made from rubbish, the project is a talking
point around which to stage a conversation about the consumerism game
we?re all caught up in.

http://everythingisrubbish.co.uk/

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