When I think of the story of Baridegi, I think of an abandoned daughter. A daughter who travels far for the parents who abandoned her, and ultimately brings them back to life.

In this story, I saw women's lives repeating across generations.

Someone who lives for others. Someone who puts other people's lives before her own. Someone who takes that way of living for granted, until one day she looks back on her own life.

That is how Osuhee came into being.

She has carried many burdens within a culture that favors sons and within the relationships of a family. Her family's demands came before her own life. Only when she faced illness did she begin to look back on the years she had lived.

I found her life heartbreaking, but also frustrating.

Why did she have to live that way?

Was another choice really impossible?

And why do such lives keep repeating themselves?

Those were the questions from which I began making BARI.