Meera Mukherjee chose to portray a confident woman, unencumbered by jewelry or an elaborate hairstyle. Instead of a religious or political figure, she elevated an image of a woman relaxing quietly in reverie, whom one could encouter in everyday life.
The sculptor made the garments by rolling thick strings of wax and laying them over a wax body. The total assemblage was then cast in bronze using the lost-wax process, which she learned from bronze casters of Indigenous communities in central India and Nepal.
