
Japanese fashion designer Masaya Kushino expresses his surrealist imagination through his sculptural footwear. His recent shoe-sculpture series, “Bird-Witched,” explores the transformation of a tall pump into a feathery creature. The sculpture series is currently on view in the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition, “Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe.” His other recent series, “Reborn,” examines the cyclical qualities of nature. With each successive piece in the series, we see a shoe overgrown with plant life wither, wilt, catch fire, and eventually flourish once again.









Italian artist
The sculptures of Federico Clapis often play with our tether to technology, from the womb to the modern professional. The former stage, in particular, is where we find some of the artist’s most provocative work. He recently unveiled the above piece, a massive bronze figure, in London.
The shape of a church is indefinitely sketched into the landscape in the latest project by architecture duo,