After I got out of school in the early seventies, I was teaching in California and I bought the shoes in a second hand store in San Jose. When I moved to New York I brought one suitcase of my clothes with me and seventy-five pairs of my little black shoes. I brought them to Stephen Eins, who had a storefront at 3 Mercer Street and was interested in showing work that was specifically about commerce. We held a sale, as opposed to an exhibition- a shoe sale. The announcement was a postcard with a picture of a pair of shoes on it. It read "two shoes for two dollars". We held the sale two Saturdays and sold all the shoes.