Sweet dreams are made of these… two figures in apparent levitation. Eternal bliss. Good things come in pairs, as in the Chinese adage, in the cusp of Nature – Land, Sea, Mountain and Sky – what more framed by a circle. The wavy sinuous lines make for both slumber and reflection: soothing and therapeutic. When one is in love, when one is in ecstasy, one can fly. Echoes of R. Kelly’s sonorous strains of I Believe I Can Fly.   I Believe I Can Fly I Believe I Can Touch The Sky. Human flotsams are one of Khoo Sui Hoe’s favourite devices recalling somewhat Marc Chagall’s rhapsodic lyricism of a world with nary a care in his native Vitebsk. But happiness is not about self-flagellation: it needs the conjunction of a partner, someone to share it with, to celebrate and cavort, to fulfil one’s existence. While the two figures seem caught in one’s own world, the consummate moment is when the twain meet. Though it’s still bliss if the two were to be lost in eternity, wrapped in the cosy cocoon. Khoo Sui Hoe is an artist all his life, defying conventions from the time he graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore (1961) to his studies at the Pratt Institute in New York (1977), under the John D. Rockefeller III Fund Award. His accolades include Honourable Mention in the 1969 Salon Malaysia and twice the Asian Arts Now Awards (Las Vegas, 2002, 2004). He founded the Alpha Singapore Gallery (1972) and then the Alpha Utara Gallery in Penang (2004), but is best known for founding the Utara Group in 1977. He was honoured with a Retrospective called The Painted World of Khoo Sui-hoe, by the Penang State Art Gallery in 2007, and he had a mini reprisal at the Wisma Kebudayaan Soka Gakkai Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur in 2017. He also held a book launch at PAM (Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia) in 2017. He resides between Jacksonville, Arkansas, USA, and Penang, Malaysia.