A Daughter or a Curse

In this painting, I depict the burden of being a girl.

When a little innocent child is of the age to play with toys — how does she herself become someone else's toy?

When the girl grows a bit older and starts going to school, she unknowingly becomes a target of people’s evil eyes and bad intentions.When she becomes a college student and gains confidence — If I now try to motivate girls to study more and stand strong against this corrupt society and its wicked people — Then how do people react?  To stop her from moving forward, they bind her feet with the shackles of marriage.

Some girls break those chains and move ahead — becoming independent women. They reach high posts, but even those women have often endured a childhood full of pain and a life of oppression.
They want to break free, to step into the world, but the curse of being born a girl keeps them from becoming truly independent. How does a girl, leaving everything behind, after marriage surrender to the curse of dowry and insult, accept defeat and day after day swallow the poison of this curse?

(And the question remains... Daughter or Curse?) In the end, she silently ends her journey of life — forever.