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Soothing is a word to describe this calming piece, like the soft flapping of wings and the glide of the white seagulls in the gentle wind. Rectangular bands of light and soft pastel hues descend imperceptibly to darker tones at the bottom. There a flock of the birds hovers probably in search of prey whereas the pair of birds on top is on another plane altogether. This is perhaps Tew Nai Tong’s attempt to explore landscape abstraction in watercolour. The scene is neutralised by dream-like patches of abstract and lifted in spirit by
the birds in flight with the artist imaging himself soaring in the sky. Titled Flying Figures, it echoes Nai Tong’s works of the same title depicting Chagall-like floating human forms.