The bird is the spirit of women. It is caged, bound to stay in the cage. The structure is human-made. Yellow is the sun -light. I am excited by the colours. Given freedom, women will start to shine. But the bars are still there. Some are on the inside, others are outside. The green is the little bit of growth we see within ourselves.

Mine is a mixture of emotions, some are bright. The dots are all the excuses. The structure is very rigid - it doesn't bend. All the emotion. . . is around the structure. It doesn't get inside. . . where it should be.

We started off with. . . feelings of discouragement. . . from the posture women adopt so they won't get beaten. But there is a lot of hope. That was much bigger than the gloomy things.

We felt the isolation of women in the North. Male domination of the culture pulling them back. Men don't want women to see anything else. This reality is not just in the North. Women everywhere feel the threat of conflict if they try to do something different.