Rice Shoes: Priorities 2

I decided to create a second pair of rice shoes called "Priorities 2" because I wanted to continue with the idea of redundant and slave labour, especially from Filipinos. Though it is technically ambitious I would ideally have a massive collection of shoes created with a rice coating. This is technically ambitious because an individual shoe takes me approximately 10 hours to create, considering that I handle it with individual grains of rice and tweezers.

What came out of this project was an accidental discovery for a new texture. It seems as though the rice coating seems like a strange form of reptilian skin, when glued together with PVA.

"Priorities" focused on the priorities of Imelda Marcos: shoes - and the agricultural priorities of the Philippines: rice. The first pair of shoes were school girl shoes because it combined the "lack of priorities" my grandmother had for my mother's education as she asked my mother to drop out of school to work in the rice fields. These flip-flops are now the next pair in the production line because they are now the types of shoes she would have worn out in the rice fields. By presenting these types of shoes besides each other I hope to create a narrative about my mother's childhood, hopefully the use of the rice would make the relationship between the two shoes more apparent.