"Caught within the intricacies of adult angst where the undercurrent of pain was recognized though not fully understood by me, the drawn or constructed image became very early a means of deciphering all that I accumulated from observing....my sense of empathy with the drawn image was that it offered a physicality and established a concretizing of the otherwise intangible. It became a method, as I perceive it in retrospect, of creating a dialogue that gave meaning to a psychological realm.”

The strong images of Rekha Rodwittya easily bewilder any male gaze directed upon them. The women in her paintings reflect a quarrel between tradition and femininity. This quarrel emphasizes giving back to society, which has inflicted upon its own, with assertiveness.