Shoes Representative Favorite 

Gallery Projects

Walk in Their Shoes
Practitioner
CODEPINK
Date
Jul 24 2008

"Hundreds of children's shoes create stunning memorial of Iraqi children dead through war.

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Thousands of Shoes Honor Hurricane Maria’s Victims in San Juan
Practitioner
Rafael Acevedo, Puerto Rican citizens
Date
Jun 1 2018

Walking the rows of shoes—favorite slippers, old Army boots, gold stilettos—it’s the baby shoes that stop you cold. Shoes began to fill a plaza opposite Puerto Rico’s Capitol building, and by Sunday morning, there were more than 3,000 pairs, a growing memorial to the roughly 4,645 people estimated to have died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

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This artist’s red shoes stand in for all the women lost to violence
Practitioner
Elina Chauvet
Date
Jan 11 2020

Elina Chauvet’s red shoes are worldly. They’ve been in Milan, Italy, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Not just one pair, but hundreds — red boots, red heels, red toddler shoes. They’re not there to see the sights, but to take up space. Especially when the women or girls who would have worn them no longer take up any space, except in the lives of their loved ones.

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