View the first ever survey of the complete body of ink works by Cheong Soo Pieng, a key figure in the development modernism in visual arts in the Southeast Asia Cheong Soo Pieng, Resting, c. 1978-83, Chinese ink and colour on silk, 68 x 95 cm. Private Collection. (2) As we coop up at home in these unprecedented times, as if cowering from a pandemic that’s going from bad to worse, a little better and then bad again, are we languishing or just Resting? The figure in this Chinese ink and color on silk, 68 x 95 cm in size and entitled Resting, by Singapore’s art master Cheong Soo Pieng, who drew it to life between 1978 and 1983, seems to tell us that we are in a period of unbecoming, the period of rest before we can, by adding just another letter into the word rest, we may at last reset.