The transformative Suffragette encapsulates freedom and independence in an I-form. Reflecting the viewer, the room and the world outside, the pronoun 'I' signals the presence of 'a person', a legal status hard won for New Zealand women by the nineteenth century suffragists who fought to change the laws and systems that prevented women from having equal 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 power of that first women’s movement into the present tense. The film of jet-black ink signifies the quill signatures of 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, each individual act of strength advancing collective rights. The first person pronoun also recalls a second wave feminist tenet: the personal is political, and its symmetrical figure reclaims the pronoun 'I' as gender-free.

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

The edition is open in recognition that there can be no limit on the number of Suffragettes.