This photograph was taken by the artist's father during their visit to Medina, Saudi Arabia in 1999.

A note from Saubiya says, "When I was a child, someone told me that the red in the sky at 'maghrib', the time of the sunset prayer, is Imam Husain's blood, spilled in sky at the battle of Karbala. For me, here in this work, the saffron coloured sky, is a symbol of transience. It is how I sometimes see the sky at maghrib."

Since her graduation from MSU Baroda in 2015, Saubiya Chasmawala sees her work as a means to reflect on everything that has played a significant role in shaping the way she perceives the world. Art making for her is about confronting her fears and getting over them. It is about transformation and regeneration. She works primarily on paper and uses various symbols, gestures and images as a starting point of interaction with the surface. Her process is intuitive and introspective. It allows her to discover a deeper understanding of herself and her experiences. From her 2017 series, “A Pilgrimage of Historical Oversights”, Saubiya has worked over photographs from her family archive of her visits to many places of pilgrimage. She has painted over them to depict her versions of what the photographs represented in order to reflect on the spaces and stories of her childhood.