Mastura Abdul Rahman (1963- ) studied at the School of Art & Design, University Technology MARA (UITM) in Shah Alam (Petaling District, Malaysia). In the 1980s, she became involved with the Malay-Islamic revivalist movement. Her works reflect the new decorative impulses that have emerged within Malaysian art and are firmly rooted in her own sense of her Malay-ness. Interior No. 29 has been extensively analyzed in Izmer Ahmad's Ph.D. dissertation on the trace of circumcision in modern Malay/sian art. He wrote (page 133):