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I feel, being a women and an artist born in Nepal, that the female Goddesses are very powerful in the Hindu religion but this power is recognized only in the temples ornamentations or in the holy books. The reality contradicts this and most of the living women do not enjoy much of this symbolic/religious power. 

In the Kumari series ,I paint KUMARI as a symbol for all the living women (Living Goddesses). The Kumari is made a decorative doll by the society ; she is worshipped but has no rights to express her feelings. She has no chance to claim her freedom. My KUMARIs always try to escape the body/representation which they are imprisoned into. On the canvas, they convey their pain and suffering asking justice and freedom.

 Ragini