I’m grateful to Dorota Brzozowska, Professor at Opole University, Poland, for including my work Bound to Please #35 in Chinskie Slady, her book about Chinese traces in Polish culture. The piece pairs a ceramic misshapen foot and an actual lotus slipper, referencing the old Chinese custom of foot binding, a ritual preformed on young girls resulting in permanently stunted foot growth to comply with the cultural ideal of tiny feet. Chinese women with bound feet created intricately embroidered silk slippers to showcase their lotus feet. The ultimate bound foot, “a golden lotus,” measured three inches in length.