self-portrait as an artist

self-portrait as an artist, 2016, 48x72, acrylic, Mylar

It didn't take long to paint. Four hours at most. I painted it in one breath, as they say. Is there such expression in English? If not, I am borrowing it from Russian. 

I feel angry sometimes... Recently at a party a host was talking about a teenager in her family who was "transitioning to a boy." There was a pause after these news. Everyone involved in the conversation were taking it in. As for me, I was swallowing my anger. Not at the teenager, of cause, but at the gender situation in general. "...and I am transitioning to a woman," I thought. 

Funny. 

I am a female born, female raised and female living human wife and a mother of three, but an artist in me spoils the picture. 

And this is exactly what this painting represents.

And this is a reverse of this painting. Mylar is a translucent material,so this is what shows on the revers. I may like it even better