These paintings are part of a still life series the artist painted for his solo exhibition, Mindscape at Azada Art Gallery in Yangon in 2003. They reflect a period early in Myat Kyawt’s practice when he moved away from the realist traditions of his teachers towards experimenting with Western techniques. In these watercolour paintings, Myat Kyawt carefully arranges objects commonly found in the home to evoke the postures of figures often seen in classical Western paintings. In doing so, he complicates the conventional approach to still life, rendering the human subject inanimate while endowing a lifelike quality to inanimate objects. The series is at once an experiment with familiar genres and a playful appropriation of classical portraiture.