Charlie's Print ~ Critiqued by Angie

To: Charlie

This piece appears to be tiles on the floor and there is a remnant of a foot print. The are two colors in the print a brownish that was used in the background and black for the lines on the tiles and also the outline of the shoe imprint, I cant tell if it is two different plates or just one inked twice.. The shoe print looks like a regular casual shoe maybe converse or puma. There is also an interesting mark on the bottom left corner of the print, which looks like it could be a stain in the "tile"

This piece may be talking about consumerism. In the end we are still just walking on the same dirty floors, no matter how expensive our shoes are. This piece makes me think of Hasket Hall's future destruction. The dirty tiles on the floor are very similar to the ones in Hasket and most of the university. I feel that this print has a lot to with leaving your mark. It feels more like an artifact found in some ruins.

It makes me think about what it means to leave a mark, and why is it so important for us to "leave our marks" Why do people write on bathroom walls, carve our names in trees, or leave our footprints in the sand? Do we all just want to remembered, or want passersby to think about who we are, or what we are like. There is a nice anonymity to this project, it could be anyones footprint, but only the creator knows that it is theirs.

The floor tiles I feel are Hasket hall because, that is where we have spent majority of our time, We as a class have been told to take some chances and leave your mark for his last quarter.I feel a lot of Charlie's work also revolves around the act of making. In other similar projects he has been working on this quarter working with this process of leaving marks. The way that he creates patterns and designs on the plate, by stepping on the plate, is very interesting to me because I would never think of producing an image in that manner. For this particular piece I really enjoy the minimalism. The simple shapes that the shoe patterns create are really nice.

A couple questions for Mr. Thompson: what kind of shoe is it? Is the brand of shoe important, if so is the cost of the shoe important like the Chanel shoes?