In this painting, Patwardhan is using the visual language of classical miniature painting: the seated maiden, wistfully gazing out of an open window at a red sunset. The set-up and narrative may be classical in style, but the image is contemporary. Of his work, the Artist comments:

"The feeling of being an intruder now catches up with me and pulls me away from the image. I am probably fated to oscillate thus between proximity and distance. There are periods when I am neither here nor there. It is in this in-between space that figures closest to my heart take shape. Figures neither near nor far… like the distance between me and the stranger in the street or in the cafe. In such figures, close enough to be sensuously full-bodied and disquieting, but distanced through the act of observation and depiction, are compounded the pleasures and problems of both extremes. The character and social background of these figures are established, and they take on a sociological role but it could as well be an autobiographical one."