Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025, documents the number of steps I walked every day from January 1 - December 31, 2025.
I use a system of symbols to represent each thousand steps. Instead of showing exactly how many I walk. The black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.
The base monoprinted grid is Caribbean Breeze, with Iridescent Bright Gold background paint used to signify the days (mostly weekends, but also including holidays, vacations days, and sick days) I was not at work, which usually gives me more time to walk for exercise than the days I am at work.
Under some individual days, there is a painted line of color to represent reasons that may lower or raise the number of steps I walked that day, such as snow, rainy, extreme hot or cold, illness, and vacation.
In addition to walking, this painting also documents three injuries I had last year, falling on back ice, breaking my nose, and also two hairline fractures on my right foot and spraining both ankles, that affected how many fewer steps I walked while I healed.
I have now completed nine years of paintings documenting my walking, and I am looking forward to my tenth year in 2026.
Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025 measures 29” x 36.5” and is mixed media on stiffened fabric.
My Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025 painting is finished. I love looking at it next to Dates in a Life Walking Project 2024 on its left. There are two years of memories (and some stories) that affected how much or how little I walked. Shortly, I’ll take 2024 down, move 2025 over to take its place, and hang the base for 2026 up and start populating it with icons for the number of steps I walk everyday by the thousands. I have completed nine years and I’m looking forward to my tenth year.
