A diagonal top-left to bottom-right approach breaks the static horizontal and vertical and marks a rebellious alignment. There's more depth, certainly movement, and energy. There's growth, harmony and vitality though filled with hidden tensions, even chaos. The slouching slant exudes a laidback quality of mood, like a breathtaking mountain edge with is precarious ridges. With a greenish flourish, it's Nature at its omnipotent life, growth and renewal, what more a certain freshness and sustainability. Even a healing calm. There's the poetic cadences of the peace. The artist, Latiff Mohidin, himself intoned in his book, LINE: From Point to Point, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1993: "Questions about the wonders of Nature were usually answered by Nature itself. At times dramatically, often in the normal course of its unfolding." Painter, printmaker, philosopher, poet, sculptor, writer par excellence in Bahasa Malaysia, English and German, Latiff Mohidin is a colossus in Southeast Asian arts. Most celebrated for his Pago-Pago series, a regional synthesis of history, natural landscape and man-made architectural totems. Latiff had a major Retrospective at the National Art Gallery in December 2012 to June 2013, his second. He became a regional prince of artists when his landmark Pago-Pago (1960-1969) series was chosen for the inaugural exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2018. He won 2nd Prize (Graphics) in the 1968 Salon Malaysia. In literature, he won the SEA Write Award twice (1984 and 1986) and the Malaysian Literary Awards from 1972 to 1976, and he was also appointed Guest Writer at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in 1988. Studies at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in West Berlin, the Pratt Institute in New York, and Atelier Lacouriere-Frelaut in Paris made him what he is today.