Anything alive that crawls, swims or flies is fair game to the Orang Asli aborigines in the jungle, apart from the abundant vegetation that can be eaten. To some, the tortoise may be exotic food with purported medicinal value, but to the aborigines, it helps stave off hunger even if its meat is said to have coarser textures. So, over the fire this caught tortoise goes lying on its shell back, while the curious boy impatiently looks over. The physique of the man squatting down, in devilish red, dominates the whole canvas, so the artist Dato’ Chuah Thean Teng invents a confetti of green-hued bubbles in the backdrop as an assuaging element. Like father like son, they have curly hairs. Another aborigine (top left) is seen equipped, poised for hunting mission. Hailed by Professor Michael Sullivan as the ‘Father of Batik Painting’ (Chinese Art in the 20th Century, 1959), Dato’ Chuah Thean Teng was invited to showcase in the prestigious Commonwealth exhibition in London in 1977, to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee. The National Art Gallery gave him a Retrospective in 1965 and a Tribute in 2008, while Penang awarded him with the Dato’ title in 1998 and the Living Heritage status in 2005. Images of his works, Two Of A Kind and Tell You A Secret, were chosen for UNICEF’s greeting cards in 1968 and 1988 respectively.