These are my pointe shoes. I do competitive dance and It is really important to me. I chose to photograph my pointe shoes because it can show some about my dance career. The reason dance is important to me is that I have made so many friends at dance and it is a way to express yourself through movement. I really liked photographing my pointe shoes because it showed me different ways to position them and angles that I could capture. I decided to write my artist statement about these images because they show a story and the marks on them show that I worked really hard. To take these pictures I ended up using white pieces of paper and taping my shoes on to the piece of paper. It was hard to keep them up but ended up working out.