This animation, The Last
Post, first created for the exhibition By Day, By Night, or Some (Special) Things a Museum Can
Do at the Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai)
in 2010, is inspired by Sikander's ongoing interest
in the
colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China.
In a nutshell, she thought it would be fun to challenge herself to
do a collection of
posts on mantel decorating ideas and the fireplace she used for the series is part of an 1800â $ ² s addition to a
colonial era house.