Faces and figures play a big role in Aely Manaf’s art – thick impastoes, splotchy, blurry and fuzzy, so as to dissemble forms, causing visual obstruction, making identity and identification difficult. In this piece, the seated lady has her face and torso obscured. Aely Manaf is noted for his disfigured human faces. His colour play could be linked to his being a purveyor of painting colour products. He became noticed in 2013 when his work, Exclaimation Points, won the US$1,000 Bronze Medal in the UOB Painting of the Year under the ‘Emerging Artist’ category. Prior to that, he has taken part in group exhibitions like the Young And New Part III (2011) and IV (2012) at HOM Art Trans, and in other exhibitions in contemporary art spaces like Core Design Gallery (2012), G13 Gallery (2013), and Curate Henry Butcher (2016).