I love change.
At first, it was not my "thing" and I pushed it away as far from me as I could. I wanted to know what was going to happen at all times because it made me comfortable. Change made me uncomfortable, why would I want that? As my only child prepared to go away to college and my married life and home were becoming a distant memory, I was now faced with the dreaded "C" word as never before. Change had always been a part of my earlier years and I embraced it and thought nothing about it at all. But now, in my 50's, I was faced with having to deal with it again but as an older, more worldly and more homebody type of woman.
As I contemplated the road ahead for me; with my only child off to college, the house I lived in for 20 years now sold and needing to figure out where I would live and if I would keep my job of the last 19 years, I had an overwhelming feeling to quit my job and start again. Didn't know how or where or if it was possible, but that was what I had in my mind and that was what I was going to do.
I put my unfinished plan into motion and found a place to live far enough away from my old home and moved my belongings into a storage unit near my child's school and started to devise a beginner's plan for the rest of the time I had left. It was not an easy time but while this was all happening, I was changing without me knowing it. I truly believe that with this change, I gave myself permission to embrace change. It was then that Art became a natural transition.
What you will learn of me and see in my art are the things I found that spoke to me during my transition from the woman who is still changing and embracing it just as I did when I was younger.
Some of my first tries. Gave as gifts.
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