It is such a spectacular combustion of colours with a diagonal dominated by green smithereens while a lush stream of yellow gushes down from the top left, with a thick reddish band anchoring further below. The splatters come thick and fast in the central region, to show an unrestrained and uncontrolled trajectory. Few would have guess rightly whose handiwork it is, that conjures a cosmic-spheric space of such incredible beauty, somewhat reminiscent of the works of Anuar Rashid. The thrust is manifestly like the Storm Riders (Perentas Ribut) sculptures, but encrusted onto canvas. Yes, few would have thought Mad Annuar Ismail is also fantastically adept at painting, as he has fired up the imagination with his sculptures. His sculptures and paintings are aptly described by curator-entrepreneur Jaafar Ismail as "filled with the mysticism of Nusantara. Clearly, he used colours to build and manage spaces." Mad Anuar Ismail, who graduated from the Mara Institute of Technology in 1977, only had his first solo, Getaran, organised by Jaafar's Fergana Art, in August 2017. He had worked as a set cum graphic designer and even had a stint in a shipyard. But he has become a fulltime artist since 1985. His commissions include redesigning the Monumen Pahlawan Perak and the door of Masjid Pekan in Pahang. He had featured in major exhibitions such as the RUPA Malaysia in London in 1999 and the 50th Years Merdeka exhibition.