>> My name is humaira Abid.

I'm originally from Lahore, the ::02:06 culture center of Pakistan.

In Pakistan, a lot of people, if they think their kid is bright they want them to either become doctors or engineers.

So my family wanted me to become a doctor.

But I can't even stand blood.

I went to NCA, National College of Arts, which is considered the best art school in Pakistan.

My brother came one day and said to me, I hope you know that the girls smoke there, and I hope you know that you won't do it.

Art school are places where you get freedom.

That's part of your training.

It is important, so that you can express yourself the way you want.

I have been trained in both sculpture and miniature painting.

Iin South Asia, Miniature actually started as book illustration because during the Mughan time a lot of people were not so literate.

So when they were recording history, they had text on one side and images on the other side.

Later on, it became an art form itself.

When I took sculpture and miniature, it was like contrasting mediums.

People think they are completely different, like sculpture, which is a usually larger scale and three dimensional, and miniature, which is small and two-dimensional.

I find myself very lucky that I got training with established artists.

like Salima Hashmi and many others.

I was able to do miniature like details in sculpture because of my training.

I took sculpture as a challenge because everybody thought sculpture was so tough, especially for women.

There were very very few women doing sculpture.

When I moved here, I started looking at things from a different perspective.

One thing I have noticed that all the women issues are kind of the same.

It's just the scale which is different.

Actually realized that, it's kind of universal issues.

Like, for example, miscarriage.

That series, I have done around the time that I had multiple miscarriages.

In our society, if you tell people that you had a miscarriage, most people will think that probably there was something wrong with you.

So women stopped talking about it.

I feel if we talk about it, maybe we can help another person, Maybe heal another person if you can't do anything else.

Where I used to live, there were two trees, which would only make that much cone and drop them.

So I collect them.

I had women who came and cried after looking at the works and they said, I've had that experience.

It was something they had inside them and they had closed it, but it's never closed.

I graduated with honors.

I was called back as a faculty member right away.

And then I was able to establish myself in the next few years.

And then the time came when my father said in front of the whole family, that I'm really proud of her and I think it was the right decision.

It was one of the best moments in my life.

I like to surprise people.

That is one of the reasons that I work in everyday objects and when I transform them in wood, I enjoy that.

I enjoy doing things which are challenging and look impossible.