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This painting was inspired by the beautiful smile on this girls face. Like many women of the third world they are required to make long and sometimes arduous trips, twice daily just to get drinking water. Meanwhile water bottling companies have bought the surrounding land and now drain the water from the water table. They then sell it back to the people while paying next to nothing for the water in the ground that should belong to the people. Yet this young girl can still manage a smile. In this instance it is the sight of a rainbow coloured sunbird. I gave the girl a sari, filled with rainbow colours to relate the connection to the sunbird. Thus they both become sunbirds shining the light that they are out to the world.