This early 1968 work by Joseph Tan Chan Jin from his Pop Graffiti phase exemplified by the iconic Love Me In My Batik (in the National Art Gallery collection) dispels the erroneous assertion by an art historian that none of the works in this series survived! The figures, rendered in tubular wrap-around form with stitched markings, elicit a whorl of interpretations, with the letters x, y and z adding to the teaser. The same vermilion vertical column framing the sexy half-clothed figure in the collaged Love Me In My Batik also couches the bandaged configuration(s) in a right-angled bevel in this work. Love Me In My Batik frontlines a seminal comprehensive exhibition on the development of batik art in Malaysia at Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, on Feb 28-June 20, 2016. This work was not shown in Joseph Tan's Retrospective at the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, in 2006. This work seems associated to the thematic thrust of Love Me In My Batik. Despite having his works featured in numerous Malaysian travelling exhibitions abroad, Joseph Tan had relatively few works in his four-decade career, where he held only two solos – one in 1968 (Samat Gallery, KL) and the other in 1973 (Universiti Malaya, KL). Still, he is remembered for his Love Me Series, Dungun Series, Formation Series, Endau Rompin Series and Tambun Series. Reason for the paucity of works was also because he was deeply involved in academia (Mara Institute of Technology, for 25 years) and administration (acting director of National Art Gallery besides being a member of its board of trustees for five terms; general manager of Hong Leong's Nanyang Gallery of Art; and director of Studies in Land & General Institute of Art and Design, which included a 1996 AusAsia conservation programme). He obtained his Fine Art diploma at the East Sydney Technical College, National Art School New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and was awarded a Fulbright-Hays scholarship for his MFA at The School of Art Institute of Chicago. He had also taught art in the Granville Boys High School.