I Try Hard Not To Rely On Internet Button Clicks For Validation, But It Really Does Warm My Heart That

I try hard not to rely on internet button clicks for validation, but it really does warm my heart that so many people saw this post and decided to share it :)

I don’t usually make work that’s so directly about my personal experiences, because it feels too self-involved. Like, who gives a shit about me and my old shoes? But it turns out my experiences are not unique to me, and vulnerability actually resonates with people! I might actually make more work about me now, so thanks.

Also, just a fun fact, there are more pages to this book but a friend in my class suggested that it didn’t need any of the pages after this point. So I cut it down for this post as sort of a test, and it definitely works. Yaaaay editing!

The front cover of a hand-bound book, assembled from a patchwork of grey and black pieces of an old pair of sneakers. The pieces are stitched together with black thread and the binding of the book is done with black thread as well. The spine has a piece of rubber from the shoe's sole glued to it, concealing the rest of the binding. The words "Nothing from Something" are messily stitched into the cover in red thread.

A two page spread inside the same book. The pages are light grey. The left page is blank. In the center of right page is a graphite sketch of a pair of shoes, on a white square of paper, sewn into the page with red thread. Under the square is black typewriter text that reads "I used to have this pair of shoes I liked."

A two page spread. The left page has four white squares with red thread, depicting a montage of shoe repair- taping the sole, sewing on a patch, re-attaching the sole with shoe glue, and sewing up a tear- they overlap in s vertical cascade down the page. The text follows this cascade, reading "So I fixed them again, and again, and again."
The right page features a single sewn square, but the white paper has been mostly torn away, and no image remains. Underneath, the text reads "until there was nothing left to fix."

A two page spread. The left page once again has a white square sewn onto the page in red, with a graphite drawing of a foot wearing the damaged shoe, mid step over a field of grass. The shoe is visibly wet. Above is text that reads "until my feet got soaked in damp grass."
The right page has only the indent of thread from the previous pages, and is otherwise plane grey. There are two lines of text in the center that read "That's what it was like/ being friends with you."

The back cover. Like the front cover, it is a patchwork of black and grey shoe parts.

That time I made a book out of an old pair of shoes, about an old pair of shoes, and a friend I don't talk to anymore.

Here is the text, since I know its difficult to read: "I used to have a pair of shoes I liked,

but they started falling apart after a few months.

I wasn't ready to let them go.

So I fixed them again,

and again,

until there was nothing left to fix

until my feet got soaked in damp grass.

That's what it was like,

being friends with you."

(I also tried doing alt text for the first time, let me know if I can do anything to improve it.)

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