Shoefiti Strikes Skokie, IL
Shea Willis spots shoes in an Skokie, IL, alley and correlates them with “something sinister”:
“I like Skokie. I like being across the street from the Crafty Beaver hardware store, the Aldi, and the Market Place (which sells produce and ethnic food, you know, whole pickled pig’s heads, sheep hearts, etc.). To walk through our Fresh market, is to walk into a whole new world. I like having an alley on two sides of me. There’s something sinister about the alley – abandoned shoes hanging from telephone lines, old plastic bags blowing through the poorly lit throughway. The alley is home to the street urchin kids, rats the size of small dogs, dirt, and soot. The alley’s aren’t clean and they aren’t quiet, but among the dirt, animals, eastern european shouts, and honking horns, there is a charm about it that evades the main streets where the people walk.”
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