As cool as these sneakers are, the shoes are “Bootlegs”. Gabriel Dishaw made the non-nike endorsed sneakers out of old circuit boards and metal scraps. The shoes weigh about 15 pounds, so you probably wouldn’t want to wear them at the basketball court or at the track.
“Using found objects from typewriters, adding machines and old computers, I take the items people no longer have use for and I carefully disassemble these items and then reassemble these together using metal wire creating my Junk Art,” explains the artist of his work. “I begin each sculpture with an idea of how can I take these found pieces of useless metal and insignificant objects and create something that everyone can understand and relate to.”
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