There’s a kind of hybridized creation in Daud Rahim’s painting that’s disturbing, as if commenting on bio-engineering and cloning that has given us Dolly the Sheep, and God knows what else. There’s the image of a mouse or is it a deer, a mousedeer perhaps, and then mutations of some kind of insect and even fish. It may have been a rainy Sunday doodle when the work was created and the pastel orangey-pink backdrop sets the mood. Daud’s take on life is that things that exist around us have become a part of ourselves. Daud Rahim was formally trained as a sculptor. He held his first solo called Ruang at Darling Muse Gallery (now Nadine Fine Art) in 2007 followed up by Jiwa Hidup, using 600 pencils in 200 colours, at the Segaris Art Centre in September 2016. He graduated with a BFA (Hons) at the Universiti ITM and studied for his MFA at the Manchester Metropolitan University (2002). He is a senior lecturer at the UiTM in Perak.