Wednesday 2 February 2011

Abandoned power - winter edition







As a continuation of a previously discussed subject matter - that is women in heels - or more to the point the notion of abandoned high heels, found ownerless and often broken in our streets - these photographs keep pointing to the question 'What has happened?', sketching mental images of the very moment of transition where the heel metamorphoses from being a symbol of physical hyperpresence and power into a relict of resignation, indigence, weakness, desperation even.
So this winter, the typical challenges of functioning gracefully in high heels have been all the more intensified by freezing temperatures, ice and snow...et voila:

1 comment:

  1. Makes me wanna leave a shoe in the street, just for you to analyse. xx

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