Grapes shoe

The project is to create an image that expresses the passage of time on the living elements while artificial elements can stay news for longer or be simply replaced by new ones. The idea is to make a simple image which mention only two elements, one natural and one artificial, but the resulting image must have visual impact and content through a game concept that is generated by formal linkages in our minds. A very mature cluster is placed on top of a sole to make a shoe that expresses the time progress, step by step, although we put new tires. The sole comes to take the place of a bowl or a plate in a still life and bunch of grapes comes to occupy the place of fabric in a shoe.

Jose Ramón Rodríguez Laiño was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Since 1982 he live in Galicia, Spain, native country of his parents where he obtained spanish citizenship. He studied architecture and worked for twelve years for a national and international architectural offices, making projects, models, photography, photocollages and 3D models of buildings and industrial design in many competitions projects that have won prizes. In these years, his interest in photography was rising, using analog cameras with macro lens to photograph architectural and conceptual models, although his interest in photography comes from many years ago. He has also worked in painting from a very early age, getting the award Novos Valores in Pontevedra Biennial 1991, Spain. He has studied and practiced airbrushing and airbrushing on photography at the Center for the Study of Video and Image in Santiago de Compostela obtaining outstanding rating in his final work diploma. Since 2009 he excited for photography, as well as for digital edition and digital manipulation, especially in still life category, self-taught learning and using photography as a means to express ideas in a creative way. Since 2013 Jose Laiño presents his recent photographic work to international contests for the first time, obtaining awards and recognitions from various juries by relevant people from the photographic industry in different countries.