The Mindscape Series is an introspective-extrapolating projection of consciousness of the natural world insinuating into the mind. Ruminative and salving, it represents Latiff Mohidin’s meditative phase of paintings that included the Langkawi Series. This comes from the second and more resonating Mindscape Series, from between 1979 to 1985, his first being from 1970 to 1974. The main portal reveals vibrating inner portals in the labyrinthian inner universe telescoping into a controlled microcosm of smithereens. Even more than colour differentiations of defined space, an inscribed arch top suggests the porosity of consciousness. “Compositions in the Mindscape 2 Series largely integrate architectural forms – arches and domes – in which are to be found shapes resembling ‘doors’. These compositions are based on a single-point perspective with crossing lines running towards the middle…” (Tengku Sabri Ibrahim, curator and main essay, 60 Years Latiff Mohidin Retrospective). Abdul Latiff Mohidin received the biggest boost of his career when selected for a major exhibition of his celebrated Pago-Pago at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2018. The Pago-Pago body of works were also on display at Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur later of the year. Apart from painting, he is also adept at sculpture, printmaking and in letters as a poet, translator and essayist. He won 2nd Prize (Graphic) in the 1968 Salon Malaysia. His art education was in the DAAD German Academy (Student Exchange) in Bonn (1960), the John D. Rockefeller III Fellowship (1965) and French Culture Ministry scholarship to study printmaking at Atelier La Courier in Paris (1969). In literature, he won the Malaysian Literary Awards (1972-1976), the SEA Write Award 1984 and 1986. He was guest writer, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in 1988.