The transformative Suffragette encapsulates freedom and independence in an I-form. Reflecting the viewer, the room and the world beyond, the pronoun 'I' notifies the presence of 'a person', a precursor for human rights, and a legal status hard won for New Zealand women by nineteenth century suffragists and supporters who fought to change laws and systems that stopped women from having equal social, economic, political and legal rights with men. Those rights were available only to 'a person' which was legally defined to exclude the female sex.

The poised and polished Suffragette projects the advocacy and power of that first women’s movement into the present tense. The film of jet-black ink signifies the thousands of quill signatures, by 25,000 women who signed petitions to New Zealand's Parliament demanding voting rights for women, and 90,290 women who voted for the first time in 1893, individual acts of strength advancing collective rights. The first person pronoun also relays the second wave feminist tenet: the personal is political, and its symmetrical figure reclaims the pronoun 'I' as gender-free. 

Equally the Roman numeral for One or First, the I-form records Aotearoa New Zealand’s leadership as first nation to grant the vote to women, and to all women regardless of race and of property status. When reading the form aloud, the sculpture makes the English "aye" or te reo Māori "äe" sounds of assent, echoing Parliament's process when voting to change the law. Combining past, present and future tense, the independent figure is a sovereign text that asserts and holds ground, with a highly reflective surface that includes every-one.

Each sculpture in the open edition is signed and numbered. The edition is unending in recognition that there can be no limit on the number of Suffragettes.