This oblong work stretching 183cm seems to be the one that got away in Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal’s otherwise well-documented dossier in the earlier stage of his career, this coming at his second solo in Singapore in 1961, his first being at the British Council in Kuala Lumpur in 1960. He was beginning to teach at the Specialist Teachers Training Institute until 1964 when he was made the principal until 1972. Two possible locations to this work – the Ketumbar and Orchid Hills of Cheras before massive encroaching housing development with the building of the main highway or the Melawati Hills, with pockets of building clusters amidst natural surroundings. Or it could be another masterpiece with full colours that celebrate the moments of past and present... Datuk Syed Ahmad was educated at the Birmingham School of Architecture (1950-1951), Chelsea School of Art (1951-1955), the Institute of Education, London University (1955-1956), the School of the Art Institute Chicago (1963-1964) and University of Hawaii, Honolulu (1973-1974). He was a director of the Asian Cultural Centre in Universiti Malaya, KL (1979- 1983), and the National Art Gallery (NAG, 1981-1991). The NAG honoured him with a Retrospective in 1975, and another monster Retrospective titled Syed Ahmad Jamal: Pelukis (2009). He was awarded the National Artist Award, in 1995, and in 1996, he was conferred the Panglima Jasa Negara, which carries the title ‘Datuk’. He was also honoured with country awards from India (1962), the United States (1963-1964), France (1970), and Australia (1984). He was guest artist of the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (1991-1992), Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism (1995-1996) and the NAG (2008-2009). He wrote two major books namely Rupa Dan Jiwa (1992), which was translated into English, and the autobiographical Kunang-Kunang (1999).