With eyes downcast and closed, the girl who is invariably Mizell strikes a melancholy mood with a miniature extract of a snow-capped Norwegian mountain in front of her lower face offering some therapeutic relief. Mizell was a university student Kow met in Yogyakarta when doing his artist’s residency there in 2000. Kow graduated from the now-defunct Kuala Lumpur College of Art in 1991 and proved his promise when he won the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artist competition in 1992, but it was his winning the Grand Prize of the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards in 1998, for his work, Mr Foreign Speculator, Stop Damaging Our Country, that entrenched him as a significant figurative artist. In 2004, Kow won a two-month Freeman Foundation fellowship for the popular Vermont Studio Centre residency. His painting commission was used as illustration for the cover of the movel (movie-novel) titled, Mahsuri: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing, July 2016), written by Ooi Kok Chuen.