Disclosure, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, 2008, p. 204
Description
Here’s looking at you, kid! This early model of Ahmad Zakii Anwar has an interesting face. Darker in complexion, yet difficult to tell the ethnicity. The crew cut and close-cropped stubble give him a macho look, nondescript and aloof. The picture is cut off at the lower chin, probably to frame the picture against the sky backdrop. Though in the open, he looks introspective, though God knows why. Poetic empathy is perhaps provided by the darkening clouds, shrouding him in an enigma. Set in two profiles, one with eyes closed like in a kind of meditation or in a stab of restraint, and the other with eyes opened and looking straight at viewer, half perplexed and half challenging.