Shoes

Two black sneakers with white soles and undone laces are set diagonally across the canvas, seen from above as if just kicked off. The ground beneath them is entirely covered with cut and pasted fragments of Russian newspaper advertisement pages, their small print and boxed ads legible beneath the shoes.

The sneakers are painted in flat black with crisp white highlights, giving them a solid, graphic presence against the busy grey-and-white collage of text. The contrast between the smooth painted forms and the cluttered printed matter creates a playful, everyday still life, treating a mundane object as the sole focus amid found ephemera.