Arpana Caur is a distinguished self-taught artist, who spent her college years studying literature, and has been exhibiting since 1974 across the globe.

Her work, including this one, is feminine and feminist in its perspective, with portraits of rural women placed in a contemporary urban context. Curator Gayatri Sinha states that, in her paintings, "there is no hint of an expressive sexuality; woman and nature are both symbiotically tied in a circle of perceived threat and uncertain renewal." The other major concerns she expresses in her work include time, life and death, the environment, and the violence of man on man (for example, Hiroshima, the partition of India and the 1984 massacre of the Sikhs). She has created several large non-commercial murals on subjects relating to the environment. Her work reflects her life in a wide spectrum, from the crowded Patel Nagar of her childhood to events such as the rape of Maya Tyagi and the widows of the Chasnala mining disaster.