Bag Lady Boots

This is a true story. In 1989 I left my full-time job as an artistic director in Toronto (and a verbally abusive boss) to become a starving artist in Montreal. I began by selling my hand-painted buttons on the street. I did not know a soul in town, so I went to art and music events solo. I always attracted the most interesting situations as I wandered the city with childlike awe. This story outlines one of those situations...