Strangely Beautiful Pair of Never Sewn Leather Boot Uppers hugely panda pull toy I know it's a pretty

I know it's a pretty rare one

Signed MC '76 at bottom right

but as I started photographing them it becomes clear that they are really best all as a group

Unevenness and tears to the right edge

hard not to think about literal and figural fires blazing all around us as one looks at it now

Strangely Beautiful Pair of Never Sewn Leather Boot Uppers hugely panda pull toy I know it's a prettyI just love the look of these, strung together with an old bootlace and ready to hang on the wall as wonderfully graphic, evocative things, forever in wait of soles! On the interior of one is hand written "8", I assume meaning a child's size 8, and I guess that child never came along so they were never completed. They were long ago folded in just the right way so lie completely flat, with just a bit of the interior cloth linings showing around the