Three’s a crowd but while the female pillion on the left has a shoulder to grab, what is the other holding on to? If the hand on the right belongs to the woman on the ride, it must have been an awkward way of riding pillion. Those following Farhan Hussain about sexual deceit in his works would suspect something more salacious to this goody-goody threesome picture. Farhan likes to paint human figures in deceptively bright colours with the suggestive interactions about them or defined by one another. Others might just see this as a ‘happy, happy’ picture of a biker giving two female companions a spin. On a more speciously erudite note, a tree in Indian folklore symbolizes erotic desire, fertility and disorder. Farhad Hussain, who also does sculpture, graduated from Shantiniketan in 2003 and obtained his post-graduate diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, in 2005. In 2005, he held a solo exhibition at the Sarjan Art Gallery in Baroda. He was a recipient of the Nasreen Mohamedi scholarship in 2004 and won the Best Watercolour award in the Indian Art College exhibition in 1998.