Didi Rojas celebrates the beauty of footwear with her first solo exhibition 'You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie.'
Shoes fascinate Brooklyn-based ceramic artist Diana Rojas. First using ceramics in college, she soon began to casting her favorite sneakers, heels, and boots using clay, making some life-size and some gigantic.
“I want viewers to spend time with the pieces and to not solely see them as replicas or shoes even,” explains Didi. Instead, she sees shoes as a representation of the beauty in the everyday object. i-D spoke to Didi about ceramics and big shoe energy in the lead-up to the exhibition opening.As a child I grew up drawing, painting and building things. My grandma took care of us when we were really young [in Colombia] and she’d always have paints, crayons, and markers at hand.
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