The artwork, situated facing Smith House in Mount Royal Park, presents simplified figures of nuns placed back to back and holding each other’s hands, evoking the prominence of religious iconography in the history of architecture. This simplified iconography was typical of the 1960s. Made of white marble, the monolithic and monumental artwork is halfway between abstract and figurative and sanctifies the religious symbol of the nun.

Sklavos’ artwork was executed for the International Sculpture Symposium in Montréal (1964), the first time a symposium was held in North America. The goals of this concept, created a few years earlier in Europe, were to have artists create monumental sculptures in a context of encounters with the public and to provide public spaces with international-calibre artworks. Instigated by sculptor Robert Roussil, this symposium gathered 11 sculptors from nine countries and attracted more than 40,000 visitors. It was seen as one of the events that brought Québec into artistic and cultural modernity.