Figures roughly shown hugging each other is one of Ibrahim Hussein’s pet themes during the tail end of the 1960s and early 1970s - an era of Pop and Hippies - as bannered by his 1971 Monorobos. The figures in Ib’s paintings of that era celebrate intimate private moments of love and togetherness, rather than anything remotely erotic as some might perceive. It is a call for the return of warmth, to rediscover the purity of relationships. It is a theme Ib revisited every now and then, under different circumstances.