There is no space as metaphorically infinite as that of the mind, and it and nothing captures the boundless spirit as Nature, even amidst man-made structural edifications. It is the pastoral, the panoramic that evokes the spiritual touches that effuse the beauty, physical and contemplative, with the infinite suggested by the horizontal push and pull of this work. Rentakalam represents already a maturity, and sophistication, of Dato' Tajuddin Ismail’s orchestration of such interplay of man’s affinity with Nature, organised in several ambiguous spheres of contemplation and dynamic redaction. Dato' Tajuddin Ismail’s art reveals his exposures to Graphic Art and Design, Interior Architecture and Fine Art, which he welded into a symbiosis of poetic and geometric forms. After his basic tutelage at the Mara Institute of Technology (1973), he is able to expand his horizon and explore in his further studies at the Art Centre College of Design, Los Angeles (Graphic Design, 1974), and the Pratt Institute, New York (post-graduate Interior Architecture, 1981, where he apprenticed to Massimo Vignelli). He was also a Fulbright research fellow (1987). He was to teach at the Universiti ITM, retiring as Associate Professor of Fine Art and Interior Architecture. As an artist, he clinched the Minor Awards in the National Drawing Competition (1977), the National Graphic Art competition (1978), the Salon Malaysia (1979), and the National Design Council (1994).