This work done with a colourful maelstrom but one with defined, mildly recognisable shapes of human forms and faces in particular, marked a crucial phase in Ahmad Fuad Osman’s art and life. The Baling kampung boy had moved to the big city, with new expectations and hopes, and even with the spiritual support of being in the Matahati coterie, he was lost in the big jigsaw of things, thus, the Lost Series. It’s interesting to note the mosaic-like scheme of things of Anak Alam’s Mustapa Ibrahim, but in Fuad’s case, with an intrusion of a human face or form here and there. Carmen Nge wrote: “Fuad’s Lost Series and pieces like State Of Confusion (1993) and Identity Crisis (1994) are potent indices of the angst of an urban lifestyle ⁠— moral confusion, personal and romantic relationships that waxed and waned, erosion of existentialist assumptions about religious and ethnic identities. Fuad is a member of the cult Matahati artist’s collective. He had residency in Rimbun Dahan (2007-2008), Goyang, Korea (2005-2006), and Vermont, USA (2004). He won the Juror’s Choice in the Asean Art Awards (Malaysia level) in 2000 and 2003, and the APB Signature Art Prize (Singapore), in 2008.