Why a shoe?
The graphic shape of a shoe that does not have the constraint of functionality lends itself perfectly to the unusual architecture and applied embellishment necessary to express a character, situation, or an entire story.

Why a typewriter?
The unseen narrator of the ShoeStories has a voice right out of the pulp fiction murder mysteries of the 1940’s. Those novels would have been written on a beat-up old typewriter. As luck would have it, I happened to have one of those in my basement.