Painting 17 of 30 – September 2014, 30 Paintings 30 Days Challenge
I am guilty of wearing the “mom uniform”. T-shirt and yoga pants. They are comfortable, and with two kids who were 3 and under at the time, very, very practical. I do own my own business (my art gallery and studio) and on occasion need to be somewhat presentable for meetings with clients and business networking events. Up to this point, I was physically feeling better but hadn’t really noticed much change in my appearance, other than my pants were pretty baggy. I had put it off to the point where I finally had purchase a new pair of pants because I had an event to attend later that week. I had a few minutes in-between errands to run into a store to quickly find a new pair of pants. I was pleasantly surprised that I had gone down a few pant sizes. I actually had to go out of the dressing room to find the next size or two down! It was still hard for me to tell if there had been any difference, as I felt I “looked the same”… but the labels were telling me that I had changed in size. In hindsight it might have been helpful if I hadn’t been wearing a baggy T-shirt while trying on pants. But I was happy with the success of finding a new pair of pants, in such a short amount of time, which surpassed my size expectations. This painting is about the confusing, yet surprising realization that I hadn’t just changed internally, but externally as well.