mixed media; 12×12″
“We made this collaborative piece because Lamar frequently depicts shoes in his artwork, and Jackie made the background in her signature style. We included the phrase “walk a mile in my shoes” because although it’s not a hard thing to do, you never know what someone else is going through.”
ARTIST BIO: Lamar Madison, a V+V artist, has been with V+V since 2005 and works in gouache marker, pastels, and sharpies. His favorite subject matters are shoes, hip-hop, and urban art. Jackie Fisher weaves a spiderweb-like labyrinth with her abstract paintings, encouraging the viewer’s gaze toward the center of her canvas. While these painted webs of abstract work could be viewed as landscape maps, Jackie sees them as “tattoos” inked onto skin.