Seeing abstraction as a way to process one's inner spirituality, philosophical contemplation, as well as concept of time, Po Po's works from the 1980s challenged the accepted modalities of painting in Myanmar. Red Cube is one of the few surviving works in which he embarked on expanding the two dimentionality of painting by incorporating found objects into the work. In Po Po's own words, he describes this work as a 'shrine'. Each rock piled at the foot of the painting hung at a diagonal may represent a burden carried by those moving toward an exit--the state of enlightenment.
