Framing some 10 stilt huts some clasped in twin forms horizontal boldly pushes the lens to the top. The huts seem to be profiled awkwardly offering different facades with the angled-roof topography. A large three-quarter space expanse is enveloped in light pinkish hues with the centre dominated by outlines of long tapered shapes mimicking boats. Besides offering a contrast of geometry and the organic, the overwhelming pinkish foreground is a foreboding and formidable space to get to the ‘Liliputan’ residences. There is no focal point with the view oscillating between left-to-right and right-to-left like a see-saw vision. Dato' Chuah Thean Teng is a rare founder of a world art genre, Batik Painting (Chinese Art In The 20th Century (1959), Professor Michael Sullivan). He was the first Malaysian accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery (1965), followed by another retrospective by his Penang home State in 1994 (Penang State Art Gallery). As a pioneer, he invented several styles and techniques to augment his batik-art repertoire. Teng, as he is better known, was conferred the Dato' award in 1988 and in 2005, he was dubbed Penang’s “Living Heritage”. When he died in 2008, the National Art Gallery accorded him a rare Memorial Tribute. Among his notable international exhibitions was the Commonwealth Artists of Fame in London, to mark the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Two of his most iconic works are Two Of A Kind and Tell You A Secret.