Phuan Thai Meng makes use of two philosophical concepts in this painting. One of the

ideologies is Estranged from the Present, quoted from Nietzsche's publication Human,

All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. Another is "Be Water," Bruce Lee's famous

philosophy of “Be Water” in the American TV series Longstreet - Way of the Intercepting Fist

in the 1970s. In this painting, the artist attempts to re-imagine and re-interpret our future

social landscape through these two fluidity ideologies.

The artist decided to showcase Estranged from the Present and Boundaries and Belonging

together in this one-day showcase, an attempt to create a platform to revisit and further

reading of the context. On the other hand, it is also the artist's response to the context of

the body and place after the conversation with Malaysians abroad 4 years ago.