Pointe Shoes

Acrylic on canvas, 2026 · 63 × 81 cm

Price🇺🇸

$3,010

🇪🇺 €2,623🇬🇧 £2,275🇷🇺 ₽220,130🇦🇪 AED 11,000

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About This Work

A delicate mixed-media artwork capturing the intimate world behind the performance. Pointe shoes hang quietly beside a soft pink tutu, while a small image of a child holding a red heart balloon adds a tender emotional counterpoint. The piece feels like a memory of discipline, innocence, longing and the invisible preparation behind beauty.

Story

This artwork speaks about the quiet side of ballet — the moments before the stage, before the applause, before the transformation. The pointe shoes are not shown in motion, but at rest, carrying the marks of effort, repetition and devotion. The soft pink fabric suggests femininity and grace, while the small figure with the heart balloon brings in a fragile emotional thread: the dream that begins before the discipline. It is a work about childhood dreams meeting adult dedication, about beauty built through sacrifice, and about the tenderness hidden inside strength.