By its name, Voyage, it spells a travel adventure to somewhere, across time and space, or a stylised boat or dirigible. All these while, we get accustomed to the idea of exotic places like Loyang, Huainan, or Samarkand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan, or somewhere in the intersections of the Silk Route. This is the conventional vistas we get from Abdul Latiff Mohidin's series from 2001 to 2008. Surprise, this 2007 Voyage, the year he staged the eponymous solo at Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, will have you stumped. There are the large dream-like round or oval basketry contraptions, floating if you like, but all seem encased within an enclosed space, an undisguised interior effused with warm khaki-beige colour. The shapes within are like time vapour made visible for the scented once-upon-a-time presence, a shadow of being. Places real or imagined welded into some nebulous oasis in the mind. Voyage sometimes portends a literary personage like Rimbaud or Baudelaire. Still a voyage, to be sure, in different forms, different manifestations, different spirit. Compare this Voyage to the one at the April 2026 Henry Butcher Art Auction, slightly smaller at 91 x 111cm, which fetched a premium of RM 358,400, and you get the drift. In the January 2026 edition, another Voyage (2003) of size 131 x 165cm sold for RM 672,000. Painter, printmaker, philosopher, poet, sculptor, writer par excellence in Bahasa Malaysia, English and German, Latiff Mohidin is a colossus in Southeast Asian arts. Most celebrated for his Pago-Pago series, a regional synthesis of history, natural landscape and man-made architectural totems. Latiff had a major Retrospective at the National Art Gallery in December 2012 to June 2013, his second. He became a regional prince of artists when his landmark Pago-Pago (1960-1969) series was chosen for the inaugural exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2018. He won 2nd Prize (Graphics) in the 1968 Salon Malaysia. In literature, he won the SEA Write Award twice (1984 and 1986) and the Malaysian Literary Awards from 1972 to 1976, and he was also appointed Guest Writer at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in 1988. Studies at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in West Berlin, the Pratt Institute in New York, and Atelier Lacouriere-Frelaut in Paris made him what he is today.