Birth Marks posits some similarities between the two ‘newborns’ with the tattoo of political parties Umno and KeAdilan on their backs, perhaps drawing parallel to the story of Rome, of the twin brothers, Romulus and Remus. Though on opposite side of the political divide, they once shared the same bloodline. Will there be some tinkering by the two medical practitioners standing over the babies lying on their fronts on bended knees? Jalaini Abu Hassan received a double Masters from the Slade School in London (1988) and the Pratt Institute in New York (1994). He was educated at the Mara Institute of Technology (1985). In 1985, he won the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists competition, and in 1985, the Gold Award Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank competition 1991. He won 1st Prize in the Murray Hill drawing competition in New York in 1994, and received a Rado Switzerland commission in 2005. His first solo was at the Malaysia Hall in London in 1987. Jai, as he is better known, boasted of an auction record of HKD391,500 (approx. RM196,000) set at Christie’s Hong Kong on November 25, 2007, for his work, Halal (2007).