This piece depicts the qualities of Ahmad Shukri Mohamed’s Wallpaper series - complex layers of images are projected onto canvas creating depth - a herd of elephants in the thick of the jungle with several Nepenthes plants hanging above the upper part of the canvas. The scoop-shaped plant is known as “monkey cups”, as little baby rainforest monkeys drink from them occasionally. They survive in the wild as death traps for large insects and even small birds, which drown in its pool of rainwater. Ahmad Shukri Mohamed is one of the founding members of the art collective Matahati which had a major exhibition Matahati Ke Matadunia in Los Angeles, United States of America in 2009. One of his iconic works of ‘chloroformed’ butterflies won him First Prize in the Malaysian Art Open at Galeri Petronas in 1994. He was trained at the Universiti Teknologi MARA graduating with a BFA in 1991, the year he won the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artists exhibition at the National Art Gallery. He also won the national-level Philip Morris Asean Art Awards in 1999. He was invited for prestigious exhibitions such as the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates in 2003, the Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh in 2001 and the Asean Art Show at Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan in 1994. In 2003, he was selected for the Rimbun Dahan artist’s residency. He had his first two solo shows titled 939495969798 and Ahmad Shukri at Art Salon, Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and 2001 respectively and in 2005 when the gallery was renamed XOAS Gallery in an exhibition called Fitting Room. His other one-man shows include Boy & Girl (2002), Virus (2003), Warning: Tapir Crossing (2007) and Golden Gate (2012).