I have played with ballet dancer forms in a number of my sculptures. Grace and beauty always amaze me and in this piece I wanted to try a different support structure (12mm rod) and the grace and beauty aspect also seemed to suggest birds as part of the infill designs. Quite a few ballets seem to reference birds (Swan lake, the firebird etc) so it seemed quite appropriate. She maybe is sort of tattooed and I have yet to see a tattooed ballet dancer but with the prevalence of tattoos in society I guess it is only a matter of time !