Street Art Revelation #14: What DO those shoes mean?

May 3, 2009

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Ok, I’ve heard so many theories over the years I want to settle this once and for all. What, if anything,  do shoes hanging from a telephone wire signify? Seriously, I want to know. Is it a “gang thing”? A meaningless urban exercise that has now gone viral? Is it art? A primitive form of waste disposal? Tell me. I want to know. Feel free to be correct, nonsensical, poetic, silly, or  rude.