This represents Chang Fee Ming’s first major award-winning piece, as one of the three winners of the Malaysian Watercolour Society 1984 Awards (the other winners being Cheah Ewe Hoon and Chiang Soa Ling). The award came with a pewter plate and a RM 500 cash prize. Chang won the award again in 1985. In the artistic development of Fee Ming’s oeuvre, this is a seminal work that hints at the beginning of the artist using batik motifs as the main theme and thrust of his later, more mature works. The depiction of sarongs hanging by the rafters, showing the intricate patterns and colors of Nusantara, was his favorite theme for paintings on Terengganu in his early years. The composition is played out in geometric cells of horizontal parallels on the eaves and on the waist-high enclosure of a plank stilt house. A side drama—a mother bathing a child on top of a staircase—fills the triangle on the right. From here, Fee Ming went on to develop his signature style where batik motifs became the dominant feature of his paintings, gaining him much acclaim and recognition in his career as an artist.