Happy Mother centres on a blue-eyed, blond-haired woman in labour. The infant that is being pulled from the womb by the delicate hand of the birthing mother is crowned with six small globes (a motif that appears repeatedly in much of Shuvinai’s work of this period), which are dancing atop its head.

Shuvinai states, “I was thinking that the hair was in the shape of a circle, the same as the circle of the world from up above.” This birth is mystical. The infant seems destined for Earth, but as with many of Shuvinai’s tableaux, one can only guess.