When Pearl was completed hands and feet she started to come to life. She began to wonder about her identity. She was confused, if she had no ancestors, no parents, no history, no nationality, who was she?

Could it be that her identity was independent of all these things? Her first journey was to Ethiopia. She went to see where the first humans came from, the oldest human in the world had been found here. She was called Lucy and was about six thousand years old. She was mummified in the local museum. She looked a bit like a doll. It seemed that most people needed more to identify themselves than just being human. They needed a nationality, or a tribe; they needed to feel like they belonged.

In Ethiopia she observed many customs and cultures living together. Here people still identified themselves by tribe but also by religion or belief. Here she found many of the worlds' religions, Christians, Muslims and Jews, living side by side with little animosity. But the land was troubled by territorial wars. Did identity have more to do with what you believed in or where you came from? As a symbol of her journey to the roots of humanity Pearl buried a piece of the wood she had been carved from into the African soil.