POINTE
151 pointe shoes. One stage.
A box of pointe shoes arrived on my doorstep in August 2019. They were found on the street twelve years earlier and stored away. Some were pairs and some were single shoes. All were worn. They were handmade by Freed’s of London. Sizes range from 3 to 7½. Some had date stamps going back as far as 1994. And some had names scribbled on the underside. Names of dancers who are currently or have been members of the New York City Ballet. The company resides at Lincoln Center where, as a child, I saw my first ballets.
2020-in progress
40x55” / 1M x 1M39
archival pigment print
with thanks to David Greg Harth and the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, NY