Two heads are better than one, but this head (baby face) stacked above another head called Coo-Coo On Top (1977) is just Khoo Sui Hoe's playful lark amidst Nature, with glimpses of a land far far away and the changing light of the sky. A segment of an otherwise perfect spherical moon sits on the top edge of the canvas like a hung chandelier. This head-on-top-of-head, sometimes overlapping, is one of the favourite imageries of Sui Hoe since the 1960s. The bottom head is shown partly submerged in water or with the water's edge at neck or half-body level. Isolated by itself, it suggests a nocturnal play-time of a mother and her young offspring. A 1978 work from the same series, there is a self-explanatory Flying Coo-Coo (1973), so it's not able head stackings. Coo-Coo Riverside, sold for HK$125,000 (RM 59,374) at Christie's Hong Kong in May 2015. Sui Hoe's record was set at the Henry Butcher January 2026 auction, with a premium of RM 95,200, with the artwork Lakeside Posture, 1977, a rare masterpiece of absolute quality. Khoo Sui Hoe won many admirers when he boldly and immediately went full time into art in 1961 after completing his studies at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. In 1974, he was awarded the John D. Rockefeller III Fund grant to study at the Pratt Graphic Centre in New York. Khoo is a rare artist with a Retrospective and two mini-Retrospectives. The Penang State Art Gallery honoured him with a Retrospective, The Painted World Of Khoo Sui Hoe, in 2007. His minis are at The Art Gallery Penang, in 2013, of works from 1967-2013; and at Wisma Kebudayaan Soka Gakkai, in August 2017, apart from two other major exhibitions at Help Institute in 1992 and Bellevue Hotel in Penang Hill in 2000. The Penang Museum Board had in 1978 already given Khoo a solo, of his works from 1963-1973. He was also given a two-part An Overview exhibition, the second at the Private Museum, Singapore. Sui Hoe won Honourable Mention in the prestigious Salon Malaysia in 1969 and also 1st Prize (Oil) in the Malaysian Art & Craft competition in 1965. Khoo is the spiritual leader of the Utara Group, formed in 1977. He was also a gallerist, handling the Alpha Gallery Singapore in 1972, which was revived in Penang in 2004 as the Alpha Utara Gallery.