Jacary Lightsey
The Journey
Jacary Lightsey
Florida, United States of America
The Journey
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Product Details
As a kid, hoopin' was always my dream. I didn’t simply want to customize the shoe, but I wanted a story to be seen.
This shoe represents ‘The Hoop Dream.’ I was inspired by the visual storytelling of Comic books. My shoe represents the storyline of every kid’s hoop dreams, the ups and the downs.
It starts with a little girl playing on a mini hoop as we all have. Next to her is a road. In reality, you have to cross any road if you want to get the other side. In this case, the little girl has to cross the road to access the next stage of her journey. In the road, you find another little girl who’s saying, “The Grind Don’t Stop.” She’s standing in the road because the road is the representation of grind and hard work.
Across the street is a little boy saying, “My Time Is Coming,” hinting to the fact that the hard work through the past stages will see him through.
The next shoe goes into the older phase where a high school kid is imagining the collegiate and the professional stage. Although he’s imagining it, the shoe still displays the order of the journey on the shoe. The next stage displays collegiate success of a guy getting an and-one layup, and saying “AND-ONE!!!.” The final stage presented is the professional stage with a young lady holding up her draft day jersey. I specifically chose a woman to be in the final stage because I wanted to express the message that not only men become professional basketball players but women do too.
As shoe customizers, we don’t customize the insides of the shoe because it’s the part that viewers don’t really see. So with that, I decided to paint the part of the ‘hoop journey’ that we don’t really see. The hard times, failures, and times of tribulations. On the insides I have two players looking down into their hands in frustration with discouraging words shaded behind them.
The words are behind them because through that hoop journey we have to learn how to put the negativity behind us. This shoe serves as a source of inspiration that anyone can chase that hoop dream, no matter who they are or where they come from.
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