UH: A Call Answered, It's kind of a moment within the heroine's journey of submitting to the call, it feels very much like a summoning. The narrative of the heroine's journey runs in parallel to my experience. So, all the work that I make is in essence, experiential. It's how I've experienced my growth as an artist, it's a surrendering to a luminous other half.

The figure represents the ego self, the self that you know the body, and Ebezina is the spirit aspect of the soul. And the two of them are halves of a whole. This particular image speaks to a surrendering, the horse that is in the image, there's a bowing, there's a surrendering into the call. I have felt my pathway as an artist has very much felt like a calling. And I've experienced that, in a variety of ways, through dreams, through experiencing tensions, in my vocational life, going into the workspace and pursuing a particular pathway career wise, you know, and then being called back to the act of making, the act of attending to the interior aspect of self.

The body of water between the foreground, and right in between the image has to be crossed, and you know it has to be crossed with a guardian spirit (Ebezina) in place. And where this takes place is on the ground, it's in front of the community. On the left-hand side of the image is the Kite, a bird symbolic of life.

It's saying yes to the call officially, in front of the ritual participants. There's a celebration happening the call has finally been answered, because there have been times where, I've denied the call. I've tried to put the journey on the back burner. So, this is a yes to that.

The horse is symbolic of libido, the instinctual nexus, the energy to go through with the journey. My Mother’s Decree: See the tail of the kite, was a dream that I had, and the horse was dead on the floor, no life. I would say that that work is part of a calling, the mother figure, the Great Mother, orientating the heroines, vision to life, to new beginnings. In A Call Answered the horse is also bowing down. The instinct, the energy, is also saying yes. It's the unification that the body, the ego, is saying yes, but also the instinct behind it is there to propel the heroin forward, to go on this journey as well.

AB: What can you tell me about the attire of the celebrants?

UH: So that's specifically from my dad's funeral. So those are actual images from a video that that I had videoed the dancers who came because the funeral was over a couple of days, and they came on day two, and I was quite moved by their performance, a celebration of life. It's not necessarily traditional attire. More importantly is the fact of the celebration taking place, and the use of the fly whip to... yeah, it's just, it's more of a feeling sense.

AB: There's also a lot of movement in there as well, with the marks that you've made in there and the textures that you kind of managed to bring out in that work as well. There's lots of different forces and energies just within that image.

UG: Yeah, also it's the formation I find quite lovely, you know this flow.

AB: serpentine...

UH: So, yeah, yeah, exactly... And you know, to be summoned there is a simultaneous birth and death, it's the dying of the will. You know, the will alone cannot take you down this pathway. Something else has to be acknowledged for the energy to be propelled forward. So, I think there is significance that the participants are from this sort of funeral rights arena as well.