Visual artist and sometimes contributor Rosetta DeBerardinis will launch her first line of hand-painted shoes and accessories on April 15th at Lucinda Gallery in Federal Hill in Baltimore.We wish Rosetta much success with her new line.
Lucinda Gallery is located at:
929 South Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21230-4037
(410) 727-2782
Did she make those shoes herself before painting them? Or is she just buying, finding, or receiving shoes and then altering and re-selling them? If the latter, then what about copyright? Even if those shoes are mass-produced, they are still someone else's design and creation and I'm sure a lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into that designer's creation. To alter and re-sell them seems close to crossing a moral, if not legal, line, and and seems vaguely distasteful to me. On the other hand, if she was working hand-in-hand with the shoe designers, or if she had the company's permission to alter and resell their product, that would be much more tasteful.
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