Birth of FearOriginal Oil Painting on Canvas 150 x 122 cm 1992 Beasts and Beauties As the whitening process began in the mission schools, all the children's previous beliefs were discarded. The dazzling light rushes in searching for the taken girl, as the dreaming spirits sit degraded, ridiculed and shunned in the back rows of the church hopelessly stripped of their power to the girls soul. She drops to her knees. Her life ends, her fear begins.