‘Busy-ness’ is not clutter, but a meandering of the spotless mind. Across spools of colours, shapes of places and memory locales in the mind. A smile, a peal of laughter and a shadow of sadness even. You needn’t strap on as you are taken, as much as you take yourself, on this journey of introspective flux, with escape hatches, to disengage as well as to distract. This, a psychosomatic artistic motor used by Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Zubir since her Mindscape series. Notice too, the curious definitions like lines, bands or cursory shadows in the substrates and in-between spaces that create new little satellites of ecstasies. Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Zubir comes from the pioneering batch of fine art students from the Mara Institute of Technology (now a university), graduating in 1971. Then came her BFA at Reading University, England (1973-1976), and MFA at Pratt Institute, New York (1976-1978), under the JDR III Fund fellowship. She won the Minor Award in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972 and the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1981. In 1979, she captured the coveted Major Award in the Salon Malaysia. In 2003, she won 3rd Prize in the Islamic World Painting Biennial in Teheran, Iran. She has never looked back since her first solo at the Alpha Gallery in Singapore in 1972. For her tremendous contributions, she was conferred a Datoship by the Sultan of Kedah in 2006.