There were a few publications and a movie titled Light From The East. Both mediums talk about a different topic individually. Either politically or religiously. In the interpretation of Sanip this piece is created using hues of brown and a hint of white as to highlight the overall landscape. It could be about the grand landscape of the East. Whatever the label, the impetus in all works by Sanip Lasman is on landscapes, local landscapes, not as pictorial representations, but more so an emotional bubble in time, space and maybe, history. It is a hallmark of the veteran artist painting for 60 years that at 85, he is still working on his canvas. Sanip was one of the early Malays who graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, in 1961. His is a lifelong devotion to landscape with series such as Sri Mersing, Endau-Rompin, Gunung Ledang and Gelorasa. He was also a past president of the Johor Artists Society and the Johor Historical Society.