When it comes to the world of human beings, human is the only noun. Not female, male, black, white, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, gay, straight — all these are adjectives. Human is what is being qualified, and everyone is unqualifiedly human, first and foremost.

From childhood, Rini’s art was heavily weighted with the human face and figure. She realized in 1991 why this had been the case. She had always been interested in others’ perceptions — of just about anything. She was an introvert and, therefore, talked about perceptions with just a few people. When she drew or painted a human, particularly faces, she had a strong sense of that person’s perceptions of themselves and the world in which they exist. When she finished the work, she had a memory of that person, but she was no longer participating in their sense of identity. When dealing with humans, she used no models and did not have any real idea of who was going to turn up until part way through a drawing. Then she followed that thread to the end of that sketch or painting. Frequently these people were ambiguous even to her, perhaps even androgynous. The only real deviation from this was in self-portraits which came now and then in little spurts. Rini understood that these were her way to access who and where she was at a given time.