This was a caprice, one of the few works where Jalaini Abu Hassan collaged a fabric print of 17th Century Dutch artist Bartholomeus van der Helst named the Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Munster (1648-49) and painted his mother over it, like a reclining maya, fully clothed. The juxtaposition recalls Datuk Ibrahim Hussein’s My Father & The Astronaut and Ahmad Fuad Hassan’s self-injection into past historical events – though of different trajectory of ideas. Seeing his mother on a rattan mat on the floor of his parents Taiping abode, it inspired Jai, as the artist is popularly known, to enter his mother into his painting repertoire, which is often autobiographical. One might try to link his mother to the momentous event that saw the end of the 80-year war and freedom from Spanish Catholic rule, and the flowering of the Dutch Golden Age, but such insertion is also reminiscent of Ismail Hashim’s Tidur Punya Ralit Bom Meletup Pun Tak Sedar. This work was shown at the Semangat X: Visual Expressions Of South-East Asian Identity exhibition at Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, in December 2016. Jalaini Abu Hassan has a double Masters in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1988) and the Pratt Institute, New York (1994) after his BFA at the Mara ITM in 1985. He excelled when he won the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition in 1985 followed up with the Gold Award in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank art competition in 1991. He also won the 1st Prize in the Murray Hill drawing competition in New York in 1994 and the Rado Switzerland competition in 2005. He was a member of the Anak Alam artist’s group which started in 1985. His auction record was set at the Nov 25, 2007 Christie’s Hong Kong where his work, Halal (2007), fetched HK$391,500 (RM196,000).