Walden Store
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Walden Store
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Everything is free for the seeing. When Henry did Walden he meandered in and out of his ideas which were his 'real life'. I'm sure he could have lived in a shopping mall and written the same book. Thoreau hinted at the possibility that the intrusions of the world such as the train whistle were the boundaries of the space he created. In Walden Store, the boundaries are the edges of your imagination. By creating visual rather than verbal images, I've tried to give you the choice of a visual connection-- such as the way glass, and ice, and the patterns of light on a chandelier are virtually similar. The premise of Walden Store is that all things affect each other-- that abstract ideas and concrete objects are part of the same space. Walden Store is about connections-- how a beautiful pair of shoes becomes a symbol for a walk, for a highway that interrupts the path, and yet creates a beauty of its own. Walden Store is a way to remind us that the shoes are themselves beautiful, but they're not the path. Not many poets or artists pay attention to shoes, yet as a poetic symbol they're as purposeful as they are in reality. Shoes take us on intimate trips, while roads can be fast, treacherous, and create their own landscape. Roads are a kind of ultimate sculpture-- demanding space and creating their own pace. |
