It was relative early years still for Ahmad Fuad Osman, a staple of the cult Matahati art collective, as the Baling kampong-boy grappled with studies in a big-city and all its attendant distractions and temptations. The initial abstractions with hints of caricatures afforded him a shot at a personal visual language incorporating musical sensibilities ala Kandinsky, to express himself, though later he was to plunge into figurative. This first work of his abstract phase, a tabula rasa as it were, around the time of Matahati's first group show, LIFE, at Galeri Maybank in 1993. He described the self-predicament as putting himself in "an unknown place, an unfamiliar situation, uncharted territories, like a deep jungle you don't know of, and instinctively trying to find the way out." The art critic Carmen Nge wrote: "Fuad's Lost Series is potent indices of an angst of an urban lifestyle - moral confusion, personal and romantic relationships that waxed and waned, erosion of essentialist assumptions about religious and ethnic identities." His tenor of works often subvert history with ironic interventions of mediated Reality like the Recollections Of Long Lost Memory (2007) which won the Juror's Prize in the APBF Signature Prize in Singapore in 2008. Fuad had art residencies in Rimbun Dahan in Malaysia, South Korea and Vermont, USA. He is a founding member of Matahati art collective, together with Bayu Utomo Radjikin, Hamir Soib, Ahmad Shukri, and Masnoor Ramli, the batch of '91 from the Mara Institute of Technology.