Five Women has a long genesis. It all started with a dream of myself with four women friends washing our hair under a shower in a living room, where one wall was a forest of trees. When I awakened, I sketched the figures. I discovered that the figures depicted five aspects of myself and in a wider sense, five attributes of the feminine: Spiritual (Tree of Life), Sensual (Erato), Creative (Yang), Receptive (Yin) and Aware (Observer).