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Seng Choo concentrated on batik and watercolours in the early years before moving onto oil, which gives his work greater textural and tactile ground besides a longer life-span. His figurations have also become better defined and refined, with more elongated extensions of the limbs ala Cheong Soo Pieng.

Here, the artist plays on a window-within-window perspective - from the outside, a bevy of girls looking in and vice versa, with another window in the background. The blackbird on the cushion in the foreground has obviously flown out of its cage in between the two front windows.