nickrearden:

Artist James Straffon’s shoe fetish continues apace: this time its Alex Dowsett’s for the 2012 IG Markets London Nocturn coming up.

The meat hook alludes to the Smithfields former meat market venue for the series of races taking place in Britain’s capital on Saturday June 9th with the shoe belonging to one of the Team Sky top professionals that will contest the headline event. Straffon draws the queasy analogy between “the ‘fresh fillets’ of the twilight traders, and the fresh legs of the evening’s racing,” remembering no doubt that when the market was in operation the gutters would quite literally run with blood. At six in the morning, unless you were a meat trader or from the catering clientele that was always an eye-opener for a boy from the city.