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June 06, 2016

Should I paint a Nike shoe for the Archibald Prize? Bold idea #4 to win

What is a person?

It sounds simple but quickly becomes difficult to answer (like an onion with layers booby trapped to thwart anyone who tries to peel it).

If you believe the mood of our age, inanimate objects become personal and alive when a brand is stitched to it. Take a Nike shoes for example.

Nike is energetic, inspiring, aspiring, perspiring and a friend to the outcast dreamer. Nameless objects are cold and unfeeling but engraved with a logo and moniker they become as real as you and I. What better way to capture a distinguished person for 2016 than to paint a shoe that is really a person we all know named ‘Nike’?

What do you, reader of my thoughts? Should I paint a Nike shoe?

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