This image is named after the Zimbabwe independence. The sitter in this image ‘Rosebud’ stands to represent the Zimbabwean female war veterans who went unrecognised and unseen. Being drawn to liberation movements I drift to romanticism stylistically to achieve the drama which epitomised pre-colonial Zimbabwe. I also interrogate the meaning embedded in statues in the way they assert their dominance and presence through a concrete visual language. I aim to highlight female heroines in the exact same manner through emphasising the grandeur