The work grew out of research into the enslavement of the female subject, identified as the oldest and most insidious slavery in history, which also exists in contemporary times.
In this representation, the female figure is no longer born from a shell, as the iconography linked to the birth of Venus would have it, but from bloody water, and the shell is on the woman's shoulder as a sign of what has been hard-earned over time.
Freedom for the female must always be earned and fought for.
Despite the bloody roots, the horse exists and is the possibility of freedom.
