Estimated men’s EU 40 (unmarked). Found black leather western boots, remade by Chains. Featuring real cigarettes spelling “WATER” and “WORLD,” permanently affixed, sealed, and waterproofed.
Category: Remade
File Under: #Waterworld, #Smokers, #EnvironmentalCollapse, #Cinema
Description
Pair of found black leather western boots, remade through irreversible material intervention. The exterior of each boot is inscribed with real tobacco cigarettes spelling “WATER” on one and “WORLD” on the other.
The cigarettes were discovered in bulk—sealed in plastic and abandoned in a snowbank—and applied individually by hand. Each cigarette is permanently affixed, sealed, and waterproofed using multiple coats of non-toxic acrylic adhesive varnish. The boots remain fully wearable and function as intended.
White and neon green leather paint has been applied to the uppers and exteriors, allowing brush marks, abrasion, and prior wear to remain visible. The soles have been painted white. Embedded into the arch of each sole is a recycled aluminum tag, hand-stamped and permanently affixed with small cobbler’s nails on either side.
The heels are hand-inscribed by the artist with phrases taken directly from Waterworld (1995):
“how about a cigarette?” (WATER), “never too young to start” (WORLD)
Once dismissed as excessive and irrelevant, the film now reads as uncomfortably prescient. Cigarettes—used in the film as currency by the leather-clad “Smokers”—reappear here as surface, language, and obstruction. As ecological collapse accelerates, the gas-guzzling smoker feels less like parody and more like a familiar antagonist.
All materials remain visible. Nothing is concealed.
Estimated men’s EU 40 (unmarked). Found black leather western boots, remade by Chains. Featuring real cigarettes spelling “WATER” and “WORLD,” permanently affixed, sealed, and waterproofed.
Category: Remade
File Under: #Waterworld, #Smokers, #EnvironmentalCollapse, #Cinema
Description
Pair of found black leather western boots, remade through irreversible material intervention. The exterior of each boot is inscribed with real tobacco cigarettes spelling “WATER” on one and “WORLD” on the other.
The cigarettes were discovered in bulk—sealed in plastic and abandoned in a snowbank—and applied individually by hand. Each cigarette is permanently affixed, sealed, and waterproofed using multiple coats of non-toxic acrylic adhesive varnish. The boots remain fully wearable and function as intended.
White and neon green leather paint has been applied to the uppers and exteriors, allowing brush marks, abrasion, and prior wear to remain visible. The soles have been painted white. Embedded into the arch of each sole is a recycled aluminum tag, hand-stamped and permanently affixed with small cobbler’s nails on either side.
The heels are hand-inscribed by the artist with phrases taken directly from Waterworld (1995):
“how about a cigarette?” (WATER), “never too young to start” (WORLD)
Once dismissed as excessive and irrelevant, the film now reads as uncomfortably prescient. Cigarettes—used in the film as currency by the leather-clad “Smokers”—reappear here as surface, language, and obstruction. As ecological collapse accelerates, the gas-guzzling smoker feels less like parody and more like a familiar antagonist.
All materials remain visible. Nothing is concealed.
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