"FREEDOM" "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" (Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Sometimes, the real chains are the ones we create for ourselves, those who block us and do not allow us to express our ambitions, our dreams.... The hair in my self-portrait drawing is a symbol of breaking the boundaries of the self.... My passion for painting has existed since I was a little girl. I continued to paint in the arts' high school where I studied, and later also in my academic studies, but then I "imprisoned" it inside me for years.... until I gave it free rein and allowed it to break out again....