In recent years, more works from Dr Choong Kam Kow’s earlier series have surfaced, ditto his Kinta Series, especially after his major Retrospective accorded by the National Art Gallery in 2014-2015, which tremendously raised his profile in the public sphere as well as detailing his life achievements as art administrator and educationist, artist and activist, sculptor and printmaker, international art organizer and art-seminar evangelist. Time was when his Chinese roots took greater hold with his flexing of mixed Chinese ink works with Western theoretical norms, singing praises of places around his hometown Ipoh, although after that he had an Expressionist Ink Painting Series. This work, though blotted with thickets of trees and other vegetation, exudes of transparent washes and sparing defing outlines. It was done just before his departure to New York City, where he completed his Masters in Fine Art at the Pratt Institute in 1968, and where his works rank with the best of American AbEx at that time. His curriculum vitae is of encyclopedic proportions. In twin ‘time-capsule’ – Academia: CEO of Malaysian Institute of Art, head of La Salle-SIA College of Art, head (Art Dept) of UN International School in New York, and longest non-Malay lecturer at Mara Institute of Technology (20 Years); Art: If American, would have been an Ab-Ex icon; Invention of Shaped Canvas, then Multi-thematic Forms; Structural like SEA Thru Series; Fabrications – Festival with paper-pulp concoctions, Rhythm of Growth, Rockscape and Earthscape, all these representing some of the most extraordinarily inventive works.