When Boots Retire… and Grow Teeth: The Curious Afterlife

You thought your boots would die quietly in a corner. Turns out, some just go feral.

There’s a German artist, Dejo Denzer (below the post I leave his contact if you’re interesting in his work) on clearly sent by the gods of leather and madness, who takes old, exhausted boots and gives them a second life. Not as planters. Not as décor. As creatures. With teeth, hair, eyeballs, and facial expressions that whisper “I’m not done with you, Johann-Heinz.”

These are sculptures. They’re exorcisms.
One boot squints like it’s just seen your browser history. Another grimaces like it’s trapped in a conversation about crypto.

Let’s be honest, this makes perfect sense.
At The Sole Scoop, we’ve always said boots don’t really die. They transform. In the hands of this artist, they become strange little souls that probably smoke a pipe and mutter things like “asphalt was warmer in the ’90s.”

What does this say about us?

That our boots absorb our essence?

That leather ages better than half of Hollywood?

That deep down, every pair of work boots is just one bad day away from growing molars?

So next time you’re about to toss that battered old pair, pause.

They might be ready for retirement… or ready for reincarnation.

To see Dejo Denzer work: https://dejodenzer.jimdofree.com