This early work reveals Anthonie Chong as a major figurative artist with a fragile temperament and deeply psychological impulses. There are two poles, one of Realism and the other with eddying textures that enhance the drama. Here, the mother is shown awkwardly snatching away her child, who has a perplexed look about him. Despite her protective nature, the child does not look comfortable. Anthonie Chong puts his signature in a sloping slant on the upper right of the woman’s head. Anthonie Chong graduated in Graphic Design from the Perak Institute of Art in 1990. He won the Philip Morris Asean Art Award – Malaysia in 1998. In 2000, he switched to caricature-like iconography fusing eastern surrealism with digital technology, namely his e-monk creations which morphed into @-monk in 2010, and which was represented in three series – Community, Gaia and Mechanism. He had his first solo at the X Pub and Gallery in Penang in 1974.