“You might like to wear it” is concerned with the concepts of throw-away culture and aspirational luxury consumerism. Our overconsumption has an eventual limit; in the meantime, we’ve become inundated by the sheer weight of stuff (much of it petroleum-based plastic products).

I have a friend who frequently gives me her castoffs, including this pair of rose-gold Coach kitten heels. She wrote in her enclosed note that if I didn’t want the shoes, I could simply throw them away.

The brand and glint are signifiers of the shoes’ worth, superficial traits reminiscent of costume jewelry and other objects we purchase to feel glamorous or worthy. All that adorns us is destined for the dustbin.

The slope of fabric swatch-covered styrofoam packing peanuts echoes the mounds of plastic trash piling up around the globe, seemingly boundless. This reimagined shoebox holds items destined to become trash.