A shoe design for the 757 to build our brand. Highlighting our region’s rich nautical history, I created a logo framing our 757 with a porthole, added dock rope trim, used a sand colored bottom sole, water blue midsole, and the 4 sides of a boat as the 4 sides of the shoe, emphasizing the STAR of the right side, STARboard, to emphasize that we are the stars of the 757 - this shoe doesn’t represent a single celebrity to add to their vast fortune, but it represents the region and its constituents. The friendly mammal - the dolphin at the front of the shoe serves to represent our welcoming nature, sort of an extended hand. Putting our best foot forward, I want these shoes to be manufactured locally to build “Made in the 757” brand.
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MOCA Virginia Again Rejects Proposal for Local Artist's Journey from KBM Factory to Harvard Square /
Once again MOCA Virginia rejects my 20 plus year art journey from the factory of KBM (Kempsville Building Materials) to Harvard Square. My work begun in the dusty and noisy factory developed into a unique drawing style spawned by the pressures of space and time while eking out drawings in between assembling doors on the line - oh, yes, this is the School of Hard Knocks. Even with the startling relevance of the drawings to the homeless center now being built on the old KBM site - I know what it was like living on the street and drawing in the factory with no studio - my hometown museum MOCA, still turns their noses up to this work of inspiration that could encourage the homeless more than the sterile beds of the new center. It was over 6 months that I proposed the work to the Cultural Center of Virginia Beach - they said their was no place for my art at the center - "Where we gonna put it - in the clinic?" I contacted the Cultural Center over 6 months after they said they would get right back when closer to choosing the artists for the year, and then was told they are booked up till 2020. Days after that, their affiliated museum MOCA, with whom they act as a liaison, and with whom they passed my thumb drives too, (around the same time I sent my rather detailed proposal).
