Before the pandemic, I started a series on women waiting. As the year evolved this took on a whole new resonance. I wasn’t out taking pictures of other women to use as reference, I was staying at home. The subject available was me waiting and I was waiting all the time. We all are. Over the summer the waiting women became about me and my feelings about the pandemic. I was always waiting: for the vaccine, waiting to see my children and friends, waiting to go to a restaurant, waiting to teach in person, waiting for the election. I set up photo shoots with myself as a subject and painted my own features and physique using poses from the reference photos I had collected of other women. In this way, I chronicled the new regularity of my everyday schedule and the small changes to routine. I also could explore my feelings about what I was missing. Both of these images are from self portrait photos I set up: in the first I am wearing my pajamas in my studio and in the second I am all dressed up, infatuated with the shoes, but not going anywhere at all!