The Voyage series unveiled at Galeri Petronas, KL, in 2007, saw Abdul Latiff Mohidin return to gestural expressions but without specifics in the title, it’s unknown if the subject is a place, people or event. The timeline is between 2001 to 2008. It may refer to a literary dalliance or an exotic place in Latiff’s travels in the cultural intersections of the Silk Route or even, unlikely, an incident. Unlike Gelombang, the gestures are more ponderous, certainly evoking a sense of contemplation. Unusual are the black dishwashing metal-mesh sponges, disparate settlements perhaps like the dulou fortification. They allude to something earth-bound and static rather than some hovering dirigibles. Viewers perhaps may view it as Telaga Tujuh, such is the beauty of abstract art, leaving it to the discretion of the viewers to interpret the expression and to admire the aesthetics. Painter, printmaker, philosopher, poet, sculptor Latiff Mohidin straddles over Southeast Asian art and aesthetics like a colossus. He is a trilinguist – Malay, English and German. His Pago-Pago series is regional art legend. Latiff was awarded a major Retrospective at the National Art Gallery in December 2012 to June 2013, his second. He studied at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in West Berlin, the Pratt Institute in New York, and Atelier Lacouriere-Frelaut in Paris. He 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.