Deserts or arid regions could transform overnight into bustling townships with the discovery of precious metals, diamond or gold. Cherish how Kimberley or other South African mining towns flourish from what was dubbed De Beers Big Hole into, albeit this Diamond City is noted for 'blood diamond', the title of the 2004 Hollywood film starring Leonardo de Caprio. As all civilisations stem from rivers, Rafiee Ghani, the travelling pilgrim of an artist, imagined a river, and a diamond one at that, where a party goes on until the depletion of whatever is exploited. Ah well, the past is buried as new conurbations flourish, a melange of many, many cell-like beautiful pictorial schisms in Rafiee's inimitable kaleidoscopic crowded lines and symbols. What a blissful party, how blessed! Rafiee Ghani is the Indiana Jones of art on a global scale, often travelling alone across inhospitable terrain imbibing an adventurous spirit that is unmatched. Two Minor Awards in the Bakat Muda Sezaman competitions, in 1984 and 1985, and a Minor Award in Salon Malaysia 1991, besides 2nd Prize in the Malaysian Art Open 1994 attest to his stature. A Malaysian winner at the Philip Morris Asean Art Award in 1994. Art tutelage at the Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester Polytechnic) in UK, and an uncompleted study stint at the De Vrije Academie Voor Bildeende Kunst in the Hague, after his diploma at the Mara Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1986-1988. He also had a teaching stint in Mahe, the Seychelles, in 1991-1993.