Nibha Sikander's detailed layered creature comments on the beauty of nature depleting rapidly because of the climate crisis. This theme ties in with the idea that nature remembers, and also allows one to imagine all the species that are now free to live unencumbered with the absence of humans in the world.
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'Wrought with unerring accuracy, and with a heightened attentiveness to delicate and often elusive detail, Nibha Sikander’s moths and birds testify to the dazzling enchantment of the natural world as well as to the magic of taxonomical science. Presented in segments, as a row of disjecta membra laid out from wing to beak and head, her birds make a graphic transition from field guide to portrait gallery. They come across, not primarily as representatives of a species, but as sharply individual denizens of a world menaced by predators, surly winds, changing weather patterns,' writes Ranjit Hoskote in his essay 'Wandering Violin Mantis', 2019.