A bronze figure of the Hindu goddess Kali mounted on a print, inside a thick frame.

The print at the background of the piece was painted by F. Lanier Graham in 1975. the medium is paper and ink on white paper with a black paper backing.

Kali is the chief of the Mahavidyas, a group of ten Tantric goddesses who each form a different aspect of the mother goddess Parvati.

Kali's earliest appearance is that of a destroyer of evil forces. She is the most powerful form of Shakti, and the goddess of one of the four subcategories of the Kulamārga, a category of Tantric Saivism. She destroys the evil in order to protect the innocent.