Voicing criticism of her times with
a gentle lyricism, Bhimji promotes confrontation with the difficult social issues of migration, globalization, and post-colonial history in her work.
And what is so remarkable is that the very loss at its core — a portrait is a person here, but not here — is countered by the slow
lyricism of the work: Gorky's mother is brought back from annihilation, held in the bounding contours and
gentle colour, her momentary image indelibly fused with the painting's hard - won surface.