“And then I was well again and the hedgehog invited me to the ball with a step, a wave, and a ‘good luck, good luck!’ ”

Summer 2025

Homegrown dried lavender woven into burlap, bird netting, cotton thread

Based on early nineteenth-century evening slippers, and made entirely of excesses and wastes of gardening materials, “And then I was well again and the hedgehog invited me to the ball with a step, a wave and a ‘good luck, good luck’,“ or simply, Lavender Shoes, draws on the use of lavender in healing, juxtaposing the visual alleviation of chronic pain with the impracticality of a pair of shoes that would disintegrate upon wearing. There was an ancient Roman tradition of strewing lavender buds across the floor, stepping on them to bring forth good luck and good health, and so this continues on in an imagined dance.