This 1997 work is a very, very late off-current Gelombang overlapping Latiff Mohidin's Rimba phase which debut as an exhibition in September 1998. You can glean from the vigorous broad strokes that they are very Gelombang-ish, though the name cannot be taken literally as a water wave but of a wider spectrum of Nature, or surges and excitations of artistic impulses. The 'gelora' emotional trigger translates into the raffish brushes. Latiff's Gelombang series spans from 1985 to 1993, culminating in the exhibition, Pago-Pago To Gelombang: 40 Years Of Latiff Mohidin at the Singapore Art Museum (April 15 - May 8, 1994). Some may puzzle how this 1997 Gelombang fit into the time (series) bracket in this tumble of promiscuous overlaps, but as the artist himself had stated: "The series of my works are not like railway lines stopping at certain (point) and never returns. My series are like rivers which overruns the time lines. There are things like moments of transits. A long transits. Sometimes I go backwards to go forward." "The water flows calling for water... the light flows over, calling for light... the wind blows calling for wind... Each seems to be calling for the other - each according to its rhythmic phase... flowing, interlinking, uniting and dispersing...," Latiff wrote. "Sheer exuberance and vortex, the parched strokes, the raw even primeval chromatic colours..." In sum, the great bilingual essayist and poet Salleh Ben Joned penned (second stanza) in his second Gelombang solo at the Penang State Art Gallery (Nov 15-30, 1990). His first Gelombang was held at the Balai Seni Maybank in January 1988. Amidst the dull labyrinth of this desert, He creates his own oasis of the sacred, Holding on to the clew, gift of Ariadne, He paints his way towards epiphanies. Latiff Mohidin is a national art treasure, excelling in paint, pen (poetry and translation), print (printmaking), and sculpture. He is adept at three languages - Malay, German and English. His wanderings around Southeast Asia led to his iconic Pago-Pago series (1960-1969), which headlined the mega three-month exhibition held at the prestigious Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2018 (helmed by the National Gallery Singapore). Latiff was awarded a major Retrospective at the National Art Gallery Malaysia from December 2012 to June 2013, his second. His art studies were at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in West Berlin. He won the John D. Rockefeller III Fellowship to study at Pratt Institute in New York, and the French scholarship to study printmaking at the Atelier Lacouriere-Frelaut in Paris. He also won 2nd Prize (Graphics) in the 1968 Salon Malaysia. In literature, he won the SEA Write Award twice (1984 and 1986) and the Malaysian Literary Awards from 1972 to 1976, and he was also appointed Guest Writer at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in 1988.