Male Order part II
Part II - Steel Toes comprised eight pair of handmade paper shoes, each pair modified in a subtly subversive way - heels cast from erect cocks or balancing on razor blades, soccer studs surrounded by green fake-fur & gold brocade ...
... Shoe historian Linda O’Keefe maintains that high-heeled shoes date back to pre-Christian times and were worn by Mongolian horsemen to help them grip their stirrups and by Egyptian butchers to raise themselves above the carnage of the streets ...
The installation was split up following the exhibition at Mura Clay; with several shoes being sold to private collectors. The remaining pieces were exhibited at HOAX and at the Nunnery Gallery in London in May and September 2000
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