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This work was inspired when the artist returned to his Kew residence in Melbourne one morning during springtime just after his successful solo in 1996, Melalui Jendera Masa (Window to Childhood) at Art Salon @ SENI, Kuala Lumpur, which also marked his 50th birthday. It was done while working on a commissioned series of flower paintings for Hotel Diamond Puteri (now known as the Grand Riverview Hotel) in Kota Bharu. Sweet memories flooded back when he saw birds chirping around and whiffed the blooming flowers planted by his muse, Carlotta Bush (who died in 1994), and he decided to record it as a tribute to Carlotta.