Inspired by the massive blockages of rivers to sustain super-ambitious industrial developments in China like the Three Gorges Dam and throttling of the Mekong, Riverdance looks like a more chaotic form of Optical Art with loose patterning. The work looks like  shoals of different coloured fishes in a feeding frenzy, or a murmuration of starlings coated with different colours, not in synchrony but in aerial combat. The coloured lines interweave or get entangled with one another, creating a sense of depth. Overall, the various elements of lines and colours hint at an ecological nightmare of epic proportions. This large scale watercolour was painted by Rafiee in early 2015, before his solo show at The Edge Galerie in 2016. Chinese ink is used for the black colour, which sets it apart from his usual watercolours. Two Minor Awards of the Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition (1984 and 1985) and a Minor Award in the 1991 Salon Malaysia by Rafiee Ghani are the envy of his peers. He also won the Juror’s Choice award in the Malaysian Philip Morris Asean Art Award in 1994 and was placed 2nd in the Malaysia Art Open, also in 1994. Rafiee first studied at the De Vrije Academie Voor Bildeendie Kunst at the Hague, the Netherlands, in 1980, but did not complete. After his diploma at the Mara Institute of Technology, he graduated with Master’s (Fine Prints) from the Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester Polytechnic) in Britain. Rafiee had also taught at the Universiti Mara Institute of Technology (1986-1988 and 1989-1990), and in the Seychelles from 1991-1993.