Letitia Glenn

Inspired by my own experiences with ballet, my work uses charcoal drawing and erasure to explore dance's ephemeral and sacrificial nature, capturing three stages of a pointe shoe’s journey from flat to full pointe.  The deliberately erased areas of each drawing aim to capture both the sacrifices made in pursuit of perfection and the delicate balance between the beauty of ballet and the brief, fleeting moments that define it. By freezing the foot's transition, the artwork captures a paradox: the permanence of art against the impermanence of motion, where the shoes are a metaphor for the dancer’s journey, each pose being a fragment of a greater vanishing whole. The erased portions echo the transient beauty of dance, suggesting that even in the act of capturing, something is always slipping away.