In Plaza Miserere, according to Austin, there are several pairs of shoes hung over telephone and electric wires.

However, today when we were in San Isidro, Laura, Nancy, and I noticed, a nice pair of Nikes hanging from una cable de la luz.

Yeah, far as I can make of it: in the ole ghetto days of USA (circa 1990) sneakers were thrown over telephone wires to indicate where someone was murdered. After the cromagnon, somehow this meme jumped to BA and the image of shoes on wires became equated with the “murder” of the cromagnon victems. At one point, perhaps still, an image of shoes on wires was stencilled in Plaza de Mayo with some words referring to the victems of cromagnon. I assume in the poorere barrios, where many of the victems were from, there may be random shoe over wire instantiations of urban displeasure, though one cannot rule out freak storms, shoe fights, and/or paranormal predillections.

There are no shortage of theories on why shoefiti exists. If the shoes do indeed mark the locations of murders, there has certainly been a lot of bloodshed in some Minneapolis neighborhoods. In fact, based the murder rates in the shoefiti infested neighborhoods, the shoes must have accumulated over the past decade to balance the books.