Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese artist who mainly focuses on creating installation and performance artwork. She often uses everyday objects to explore the relationship between people and their possessions, and the memories embedded in them. She is also interested in exploring the relationships between past and present, and life and death. She uses objects such as shoes, suitcases, doors, keys and windows with threads to represent how the objects are entwined with our memories.
The picture below show her installation ‘Dialogue from DNA’ in which she uses four hundred individual shoes connected to a single point by four miles of red thread. Each shoe was donated by a member of the public along with a message describing the memories they associate with the shoe.
http://www.chiharu-shiota.com/en/
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2014/09/29/chiharu-shiota-over-the-continents/