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©2006-2009 ~brandejs
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Artist's Comments

Media: Latex, Steel, Gear motors, Printed circuit, Rio MP3 Player, Batteries, Staples, Roommates Hair.
Scale: Size 10 shoe

IT MOVES!


The shoe is stitched together with multiple pieces of latex rubber cast out of moulds made from my own skin. The shoe's toe and heel raise and lower as it occasionally vibrates/pulsates, and twitches on the floor as if it were still alive. The movement is not constant, and usually causes people to jump back while they are in the middle of leaning in for a closer look.

Artist statement
It's a Nike shoe stapled together with human flesh, twitching...

Other than simply being twisted, this piece comments on issues of sweatshop labour and content ownership. Each piece of skin is therefore different in colour, size, and texture and the Nike Logo is done in white, slapped overtop of all the other colours.

We live in a culture disconnected from what it is doing to itself and others, we choose to ignore rather than deal with the reality we have created for ourselves. This piece ultimately comments on this simple idea.

There's a video of it moving on my website for anyone interested. [link] (click the shoe.. and click the video button)

The Shoe has been shown in a few galleries now...

any critique welcome, I'm considering making more..... as in, a whole store type display of them for isntallation into a gallery space.

Daily Deviation

Given 2006-06-24

Animatronic Flesh Shoe 2004 by ~brandejs has to be the strangest, creepiest, but definately one of the coolest DDs i've featured. Please make sure you read the entire description, and then have a look in full view! (Featured by `De-Profundis)

Comments


:iconwednesday13-777:
Wow that is pretty cool looking and the detail from what I can tell is like amazing
:iconkiresg:
Thats just fricken awesome.
:iconjusttiffer:
wicked cool idea

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:iconjonbeinart:
This is incredible. Great vision, concept and a beautiful piece in itself. WOW!

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:iconolieviya:
Yucky. I wouldn't wear that even if you paid me. Actually I would.

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:iconhatememeowx2:
Oh wow i would love to see some of the reactions that recived! and see people freak out as it moved <3

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:iconx-jemp-x:
i dig it......

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:iconbrandejs:
ya, cuz it only moves occasionally, people would always get reallllly close up to it with their nose practicly touching it as they look at the hair etc detials, and then all of a sudden it will move and you'll see people stumble back.

one day this peice is going to give someone a heart attack...

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Adam Brandejs BFA
Artist, Sculptor, Mould-Maker, Plastics, Robotics
Circuit Design, Microchip Programming, Props, SFX

w: [link] brandejs.ca

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:iconslowly-falling-apart:
:rofl: Thats awesome :D

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:icongooze:
Wow man, that looks amazing. I checked out the close-up pictures on your website, and I must say, it looks way too realistic. I wish I could get to see it in real life with the movement.

Hmm... Do you have any advise for getting started with working with latex? Me and a friend who, like me, is graduating school are planning on spending some of next year making a amateur horror film, so I've started messing around with the stuff to see what kinds of effects we can get with it, but it's a bit tricky so any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated.

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