Fawwaz Shukri mines Pop culture in comicdom, especially those depicting romance and heartthrobs, in his Tragicomedy collage series, using the painted and decayed posters or paper clippings. Here, in a parody to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, he shifts the focus to ‘Alice’ wondering about her first kiss, which is a big deal among those in love, and immortalized in Disney classics such as Sleeping Beauty. As in Carroll’s Alice, animated in Tim Burton’s film, the two flanking rabbits, or March hares, look like potential suitors, one pompous in a waistcoat and a pocketwatch, and the other in the role of a court jester. Fawwaz graduated with a degree in Fine Art, Majoring in Painting, in 2008-2010, at the University Mara Institute of Technology. His diploma was at the UiTM Alor Gajah campus (2005-2008). Both times, in 2008 and 2010, he won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award. He held his first solo, Saturday’s Matinee, at the Pace Gallery (now Nadine Fine Art) in Petaling Jaya in 2014, and held a two-man show called Narration with Bambang Toko Witjaksono at the same gallery in 2016.