With a title like Moon Shadow, one would expect a semblance of spherical orb with some kind of penumbra. Not painter-printmaker Dato' Tajuddin Ismail in this work from his riveting RED solo exhibition, where the darkened top strip of ambiguous floral buds (trees) is played against a nebulous geometric gridspace with an oblong red centre of controlled, constricted vistas. It is a dichotomy of the outward physical world against the inner space. The horizontal spaces stretch the eyes, slowing things down and forcing a glacial outlook, while the mind skirts on imponderables, to the point the effects of the moon: on time, light, space and the tides. Dato' Tajuddin Ismail won the Minor Awards in the 1979 Salon Malaysia and the National Drawing Competition (1977). He also clinched the Minor Awards in the National Graphic Art competition (1978), and the National Design Council (1994). After the Mara Institute of Technology (ITM), he studied Graphic Design at the Art Centre College of Design, and then at Pratt Institute in New York Fulbright fellowship, where he apprenticed under Massimo Vignelli, for his Masters in Interior Architecture. He taught at ITM (associate professor) and Sunway University in Selangor.