Every woman needs a pair of heels. But in fashion, those heels need to be bold, unique, stylish, almost impractical, and high. Some absurd things have been done in the name of fashion. If Cinderella can have her glass slippers, why can’t I make mine out of ceramic?

          Heels in high fashion are more about style rather than the utility, and few would be comfortable to wear. In transforming those already sculptural-like heels into a ceramic medium, I am taking the art of shoe design a step further into the fashion-over-function realm. To take a pair of shoes, something so typically flexible and able to shape to fit the feet, and recreate them in ceramic completely removes all functionality by making the shoes hard and immobile and therefore unwearable.

          And to make a mold of those shoes, so the same pair can be replicated endlessly, I am also removing the unique and rare factor of the designer’s brand. Slip casting is used in many factory settings, so I am industrializing shoe fashion in casting multiple pairs of each design.

          Heels are meant to be commonplace, so I created the designs of the heels with everyday thrift store items. Imagine high and expensive fashion finding inspiration from the dollar store.

          Yet, in the making of each shoe I took care to carve and sculpt each pair individually, so that even though they started from the same cast form, each is unique, keeping with the custom tailoring of the fashion industry and preserving the artfulness of the design process as well.