This is a small version of NOW, 2023, a monumental, eight-foot-tall outdoor sculpture permanently installed on the roof of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court. In NOW, the female figure references the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, identifiable by the incised lace collar around her neck.
NOW has its origins in Sight and Pleasing Dislocation 2, 2000–2001, an unfinished work initially conceived as part of a large-scale mural project for the Skadden Arps law firm in New York. In this earlier work, Sikander re-envisioned the ubiquitous depiction of women and jurisprudence within the context of Western art history, particularly through a non-Western lens. More than two decades later, she revisited the composition, using it as a conceptual point of departure for NOW.