Floor Shoes

Floor Shoes - Jo Cope 2020

Floor Shoes were a response to going from working in a larger studio space to working in a home attic room with limited materials and facilities during early lockdown 2020. I started to think about how I could conceptually represent the feeling of standing still in the home environment, especially after multiple sheduled exhibitions had been cancelled or postponed.

Floor Shoes are made from Wool Felt material and are hand formed ‘slipper like’ shells/openings for the feet. The hand cut floor tiles that surround them create an extended reality, in which the shoes become almost ‘part of the floor’ or as the more common saying goes - ‘becoming part of the furniture’

There is of course HOPE- the word associated with later 2020 UK and wider world lockdowns that we are experiencing right now. The piece is designed to be able to be reconfigured to suggest that we might not be as static or restricted as we initially believed. In fact in my own practice whole new online worlds have opened up and many new projects and conversations initiated, which I am very excited about.

We are slowly learning that no obstacle is immovable and that there is always a way of moving forward with a little lateral thinking and creativity.

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