There is something therapeutic about waterfalls, especially when the cascades of water can be felt, if not observed. It is presented as an optical avalanche of white with the mossy rocks on which it plunges and glides rendered in a fuzzy mirage — so unlike an earlier work put up at the Henry Butcher Art Auction where it is a straight dip down, dividing the canvas. The cooling and curative sounds of water as what scientists call “white noise” are inescapable, what with a perceived sense of cleansing of the body and mind. In the great waterfalls, one is also in the presence of the Almighty, with the sense of awe and reverence. So it is no wonder that at one time lightboxes featuring ‘moving’ waterfalls have become a living-room antidote to stress. Artist-academician Jolly Koh is an 8th generation Baba, born in Singapore, growing up in Malacca, and spending nearly two decades in Australia, teaching for 12 years. He was educated at the Hornsey College of Art, London (NDD, 1959-1962), London University (art teacher’s certificate, 1962-1963), Indiana University (Ed.D and MSc, 1973-1975), and teaching associate thereafter. He had taught at the Mara Institute of Technology, Sabah’s Gaya College, and from 1976 to 1988 in Melbourne and Adelaide, before taking up the post of Senior lecturer at MSC College (now SeGI, 2000-2004). In 2017, he had a major exhibition (organised by Henry Butcher Art) at MAP Publika, Kuala Lumpur, which saw the publication of an important book detailing 60 years of his art, a far cry from his first solo at the British Council Kuala Lumpur in 1957 when he was only 16!