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This undated batik work is awash with orange-red hues and set in Masjid Jamek, with its quaint minarets and Moorish onion-shaped domes of layered pink and cream bricks. The mosque was designed by Briton Arthur B. Hubback. Here, at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak Rivers, is where the history of Kuala Lumpur began. The opening in the palm grove in the foreground with its phalanx of stumps reveals the svelte figure of a woman, with her back facing the viewer. A sense of tranquility prevails amidst the colours, which could spell either dusk or sunny weather with one half of the dome in crimson.