A scarlet high-heeled shoe beside a pair of plain brown lace-up shoes on a pale mint background.

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Tori Amos

I have a love for shoes. I collect them. Race cars, paintings; those aren’t my thing. I just hang shoes on the wall. They’re architecture, you know?

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A love of shoes becomes a collector's passion here, set apart from the usual enthusiasms for race cars or paintings. The speaker hangs them on the wall and treats them as architecture, seeing structure and design in something small and wearable rather than in grand buildings.

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