A curved slanted trunk of a tall coconut tree against a dull sky cuts nearly halfway into the picture, 'pushing' the staple image to the lower right where can be espied a farmer working on the sawah padi, with a fully clothed figure (who could he be?) in the shade of the raised attap-roofed hutment on the right, with a banana tree beside and another coconut tree, upright, in the distance. On the far end stands a scarecrow in ragcloth, with a hat to boot, which helps keep pesky birds from feasting on the ripening grain. Abdullah Ariff kept alive the nostalgia of the life of rustic Malaysia – in the kampung (villages) and fishermen at seashore. Abdullah Ariff, a pioneer artist-turned-cartoonist-turned-advertising maven and later a politician, had held solo exhibitions in the 1950s in Charlotte in the United States (Ownbey Fellowship Hall and Mint Art Museum) and the Malayan Embassy in Washington. He was also featured in the Le Salon Society of French Artists exhibition in Paris. In 1955, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art (F.R.S.A.) England. He was also a Penang City Councillor serving in Jelutong in 1955-1957, and had the rare distinction of having two adjacent roads in Air Itam named after him. Self-taught, he was one of only two locals accepted into the Penang Impressionists coterie of expatriate artists. He had also been an art teacher at the Anglo-Chinese School in Penang.