Stiletto Love Affair....(Original Collage)

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The love affair between the female and her "high heels" or Stiletto dates back centuries. "Just how far will a woman go for the perfect pair of shoes? Shoes speak volumes about the wearer and have been symbols of sex, status and style throughout history. With the average North American woman owning at least 30 pairs!" states High Heel Confidential.

As per Wikipedia,"In 1533, the diminutive wife of the Duke of Orleans, Catherine de' Medici, commissioned a cobbler to fashion her a pair of heels, both for fashion, and to increase her stature. They were an adaptation of chopines (elevated wooden soles with both heel and toe raised not unlike modern platform shoes), but unlike chopines the heel was higher than the toe and the "platform" was made to bend in the middle with the foot.

High-heeled shoes quickly caught on with the fashion-conscious men and women of the French court, and spread to pockets of nobility in other countries. The term "well-heeled" became synonymous with opulent wealth.Both men and women continued wearing heels as a matter of noble fashion throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. When the French Revolution drew near, in the late 1700s, the practice of wearing heels fell into decline in France due to its associations with wealth and aristocracy. Throughout most of the 1800s, flat shoes and sandals were usual for both sexes, but the heel resurfaced in fashion during the late 1800s, almost exclusively among women."

Ahh the love affair between women and their high heels.

This is a format called a Paper Prayer. The Paper Prayer was created by Japanese artists mainly to evoke a sense of well-being and health to its viewer.

The 10inch x 4 inch paper is adorned with a design and mounted onto an 11x 14 inch matboard. (not shown as yet).
This piece is a mixture of colored pencil, gesso, archival ink, tracing paper (to give more depth).

Image ©2008 Brett Ward

Added on Nov 11, 2009