Because of my parents' work, pornography was very much around me from a young age. It was

commonplace for me to act as if I couldn't see what I could see about sexuality, and by extension, my own

body.

A quick look at a parakeet's body does not reveal its gender characteristics. Since witnessing the parakeet

performing mating behaviour with my hand in the living room, where my family was also present, it felt

as if something inside me had started to move. Not only because of that experience, I have been working

with bird motifs since then.