Gravity-defying feats are performed with the mind in a state of blissful ecstasy in solitude amidst the salubrious surroundings of Nature. Curvilinear blobs help soothe a transition to tranquillity while a sinuosity suggests smooth movements. When in this exalted state, there is a weightlessness about as the mind soars unfettered, to achieving a new equilibrium. Even the clouds, creamy yellow and like puff balls, assume curvaceous body. Such dreamy seances from the pale lime green of the figures, floating as if levitated, eyes closed seemingly disparate, yet bound by the intimacy of telepathy. The surreal landscapes of the mind is like no other landscapes known to man. This work was painted in Penang, where Khoo Sui Hoe had his first solo at the British Council in 1965, and where he had set up temporary base since 2004, in between his time in Jacksonville in the United States. Khoo Sui Hoe is the spiritual leader of the Utara Group, formed in 1977. He was a fulltime artist since graduating from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, in 1961. He was awarded the John D Rockefeller III Fund to study at the Pratt Graphic Centre in New York in 1974. He was accorded a Retrospective, The Painted World of Khoo Sui Hoe, by the Penang State Art Gallery in 2007, and later another by Wisma Kebudayaan Soka Gakkai, Kuala Lumpur. There were mini retros of sorts, given by the Penang Museum Board, in 1978 (works from 1963-1973) and The Art Gallery Penang in 2013 (works from 1967-2013). In 2015, Khoo held a two-part An Overview exhibition, in Singapore. He won Honorable Mention in the prestigious Salon Malaysia in 1969 and also 1st Prize (Oil) in the Malaysian Art & Craft competition in 1965. He was in charge of the Alpha Gallery Singapore in 1972, which he revived in Penang in 2004 as the Alpha Utara Gallery. He was included in the Contemporary Paintings of Malaysia exhibition at the Pacific Museum in Pasadena, California, in 1988.