The attitude of Raphael Reizel regarding the chosen Biblical figures, is not that of underlining sacredness. The artist views with attention and open mind a world of symbols, where the role of woman appears with a force of personal independence. Personalities in whom reciprocity of the relation man-woman in the fight for freedom is prominent. Strong figures, like hewn out of rock, who decide and act facing risks for themselves and for the future of their own people. Their sphere of action has less limits than today’s observer might suppose. Ancestresses with whom to identify oneself. They have handed down to posterity a strong message of justice, reconciliation and liberation. Rossana Bossaglia has written : "A well-nigh epic interpretation of femininity, her very beautiful sculptures are individuals, each with her own existential and psychological characteristics ….modelled in terracotta … and yet worked on and painted as if they were carvings in wood. "