There's no respite from the pet cats as one tries to catch forty winks. Then again, the brood could be ‘guarding’ their sleeping master as evident by the possessive look of the cats looking over the body. The reclining back of what looks like a woman covers two-thirds of the picture and one is drawn by the simple floral and mountain patterns of the sarong as much as the electric blue of the blouse. These are domesticated cats: there are no paw scratches on the backdrop despite the scattered dirty splotches. The artist Dzulkifli Buyong is regarded as the Prince of Cats for his re-enactment of cats with their wily habits in domestic situations. Sensitive and reticent, Dzulkifli Buyong was a wunderkind of the Wednesday Art Group (WAG) in the 1960s and was influenced by Patrick Ng Kah Onn (at Victoria Institution) more than the WAG founder Peter Harris. At 14 (1962), he had swept the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prizes, for pastels, in the Young Friends art competition and repeated the feat the next year with the 1st and 2nd Prizes. His other prizes were 2nd Prize (pastel) in the Joy of Living competition in 1964 and 3rd Prize in the Bahasa Kebangsaan Month poster competition in 1964. An informal art training stint in Japan for three years proved tough on him because of the culture shock.