I just recently brought a pair Cherry Red Smooth Doc Martens. It was on
the snowiest day of the year. I had to drive down to Georgetown to buy them.
This would have been my 4th trip to purchase the show. I was in a pensive state
about the purchase. It’s funny because I am a HIPHOP head. I love HIPHOP, so
for me to want to get the Docs are a no no. But me being whom I am, there are
really no rules to what I have to wear in fashion. As long as the fashion is
comfortable, appealing, durable and cost effective then I will purchase them. I
normally would buy the Timbs, but one thing is that Timberlands constructions
boots (Buttas), are only for show. The boot company says that they are
waterproof. When I wear them, it’s more so for fashion. As I get older it’s
more about comfort, rather then style. My comfort will in return create my
style. The reason that I had to buy the boot is because I wanted a shoe that
was know for revolutionary attitude. The revolutionary attitude that they are known
for in my opinion is the Skinheads, Ska, Punk, Band and other forms of
alternative music. With this information I decided that this show would be the
perfect show for my cause and me. I wanted to paint in a shoe that had a
revolutionary spirit that I could be seen in and create in also. Secondly, the
reason that I had to buy the show during the snowstorm was because when I first
cam e to the DC area, I came during the double snow blizzard of 2009/2010. So
unfortunately snow weather is has a symbolic place in my artist journey. So it
was a sign that I had to get the shoes. So I have decided to use my Doc Martens
as fashion platform for my painting series. My painting series is about the epidemic
of the large scale natural resource raping of the Congo and the brutal raping
of the women, children soldiers and the brutal beating of the workers. It’s a sad
situation that must be answered.
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