Bukhara is an ancient city along the Silk Road and a medieval Islamic hub in present-day Uzbekistan, a land-locked country in Central Asia. With a long history spanning five millenia of habitation, it is replete with the blood, sweat and tears of wayfarers, merchants, conquerors and builders. Mausoleums, fortresses, mosques and minarets stand as testimonies of a long, chequered history but a relatively young nation when it broke away from the Soviet yolk in 1991. Bukhara is now a world heritage site. Latiff Mohidin’s interpretation is a haphazard double clusters of loose broad strokes of diluted ‘dirty’ black with faint blue shimmers at the edges, and some kind of squat structures on top.