Limbo is executed in Ward’s signature style, her subject bisected by geometric planes of colour that play with contrast and perspective.

Though Ward has abstracted the subject’s features, there is a sense of determination in her posture, her full lips set in a firm line. She is poised and ready for whatever decision she makes.

Ward cleverly imbues her work with emotive complexity, her subject made totemic through the artist’s use of abstraction and command of colour.