Farewell Kiss started from a desire to unpack the reasons behind the collective resonance of the Bush shoe incident.
A man throws a shoe. It’s sudden, unexpected, almost surreal. It stops the conference and cuts through power and diplomacy. The act imposes itself without careful words, relying only on a raw and physical gesture. It doesn’t ask to be understood. It just is.
The shoe traveled far beyond the room where it was thrown. It spoke in a language that doesn’t require permission, the language of who cannot speak, and many people recognized it.
This project dissects how a single act can hold symbolism, culture, and class within it, and how it can momentarily collapse the distance between the powerful and the powerless. Not by asking for attention, but by taking it.
Farewell Kiss reclaims that moment not as spectacle, but as rupture. As a break in the expected order. As a reminder that even within tightly controlled spaces, something can slip through. Something can be thrown. And in that instant, the script fails.
The project takes shape as a shirt, a printed zine, and a collection of stickers.