“Collage helps visualize an idea, producing different perceptions such as desire and experience and the journey,” says Anisa Abdullah. Jalan Petaling Poskod 50000 is undergoing massive infrastructural transformations that the Kuala Lumpur Chinatown will be cowering under the shadow of the 118-storey Merdeka PNB tower. At 644 metres high, it will be the tallest in the country, even outstripping the Petronas Twin Towers (452 metres high). Coming up near the Merdeka Stadium, the tower is scheduled for completion in the year 2019. Coupled with the 106-storey Signature Tower on the 70-acre Tun Razak Exchange, the Petaling Street tourist precincts could get dwarfed. New MRT network will also cut through the area. Even as the artist Anisa Abdullah, with a Hitchcockian cameo, takes a ‘walk’ in the area, it will become ‘nostalgic’ because of the heavy developments. Some of the buildings on the left with a forest of signs with Chinese letterings had to make way for the MRT while even the hardy Volkswagen ‘Beetle’ seems destined to be driven out. Anisa uses cut paper, snippets, newspapers and magazines for her wide-angle composition. Born in Warsaw in Poland, Anisa spent her early life following her diplomat father’s posting in Poland, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia but she was posted back to Malaysia to give her a Malaysian education. She graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art from IKIP College, Kuantan, Pahang, in 2005-2008, and a BFA from the Universiti Mara Institute of Technology, majoring in Painting, in 2008-2010. She was awarded a NAFA artist’s residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2012. Her first solo, Cebis-Cebis, was at the Galeri Chandan on April 8-May 8, 2013. In her debut in the Henry Butcher Auction on Oct 4, 2015 , her work Suatu Ketika (2012) sold for a premium of RM5,900.