The Shoe in Art, the Shoe as Art

The title of this post is the title of a great essay I read by Janice West. The essay is one of many in a book called Footnotes on Shoes edited by Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferriss.
This particular essay has made me think a lot about my own proposed sculpture - Shoe tree and has even inspired me with new ideas.
Some of the art works mentioned in this essay are ones well known to me: such as Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli's Shoe Hat and Andi Warhol's shoes drawn for advertising and commercial art. 

   

A note made about Warhol's Shoes is that they are always shown in profile and that they are not in pairs. This takes the shoe out of context of the body and by not having them in pairs the association a viewer has with the image is that of design and fantasy and not one of feet and function. 

This led me to think about how the shoes creating my tree should be represented / utilized. 

Firstly I have decided that all the shoes used to construct my shoe tree will all be pairs and in pairs not haphazardly arranged. I have chosen to do this as I do want the viewer to have a bodily association, I want them to think feet!