Project 01: Masking Tape Shoes

A Challenge of Endurance

The start of the semester was met with the constantly frustrating task of recreating a pair of shoes out of masking tape -- which, at first glance, seemed straightforward enough, but turned out to be far more complicated than anticipated. Layer after layer of tape would rip the sanity from my mind, as replicating the forms and structure of the shoes would take days to build up, ensuring that the pieces were solid and yet malleable, somewhat like a shoe itself.

After weeks of working, however, I finally found a useful tactic that cut down the amount of tape needed, which involved rolling the tap into cylinders to thicken up areas and hold the form more sturdily than the multiple layer method. By far the most infuriating and confusing project of the semester, providing challenge after challenge.