What price memories? A jumble of inconsequential images that might or might not mean anything to anyone else, and littered with objects possessed or hankered for? The Traveller is a hodge-podge of things, mostly old dating to a time of paraffin lamps. The Union Jack box and the Coca Cola advertisement hints at the traveller’s Western leaning. The YOW tag, in airport code, in the handle of the old-fashioned suitcase refers to Ottawa, and what in blazes is the person or persons in the painted story doing in Ottawa? Whatever the clues or secrets, the skull looking out, facing right seems to be sniggering, or is it gritting its teeth? “A work of art must be able to entice its viewers to think, not only to acquire a higher understanding of its visible form but also of its deeper meaning,” the artist had averred. This work was shown in the Paradox exhibition at Galeri Prima, Kuala Lumpur, in March 2017. Suhaidi is a champion of art awards. Apart from the Major Prize in the Nokia Art Awards in 2002, he also had Grand/Major Prizes in the Pesta Anggerik, Shah Alam (Life Drawing, 2004); Traditional Malay House (Malacca, 2008); Historical Painting in Pahang (2002), Malacca (2005), Johor (2004, 2008) and Terengganu (2009); Terengganu Nature (2006) and Craft Design (2008). He has also won more than a dozen Minor Awards in various competitions. He obtained his MFA from the Universiti ITM in 2003-2005, and BFA in 1995-1999. He has come a long way since his first solo, Rainforest, held at the Batang Ai Longhouse resort in Sarawak in 1997.