When a life chicken was sold at the wet market it will be wrapped in newspaper so the buyer could easily carry the chicken back home, to be slaughtered and cook, or rear for a few months, then slaughtered and cooked. A chicken wrapped in newspaper used to be a very common sight but no longer. It is only when this is no longer practiced that I realized the act of forcing a chicken into a cylinder of strings and newspaper most unnatural.

The writings on the newspaper in this painting are some events that continue to circulate in Malaysia’s mass media that we have taken to be normal but in fact it is as unnatural as a chicken wrapped up in newspaper.