Another editioned print by Ahmad Zakii Anwar from his Primordial Dream series that sold at the Henry Butcher Oct 28, 2012 auction for a premium of RM4,950, is back on the block. This is the only print series of Ahmad Zakii, from his invited print residency with the Singapore Tyler Print that resulted in the Primordial Dream exhibition at its premises in Singapore in 2005. The suite of works was based on his sketches on Mak Yong performances in a clandestine invitation somewhere inside a jungle in Kelantan, because of the Kelantan PAS hardlined Islamic government’s ban on such cultural heritage as “UnIslamic.” Here, one of the dancers is shown in close pensive profile when not performing the sacred dance, with his beak nose and chin and large ear and with his sparse straggly short hair dominant. Ahmad Zakii made a huge impact with his artistic debut of his Smokers series at Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, in 1997. A graduate in Graphic Design at the Mara Institute of Technology in 1977, he decided to quit a successful Advertising career to go fulltime into Art. In two decades, he proved his huge versatility and individuality in handling figures, animals and still-life and his brand of Urban Realism. The full range of his genius in so short a time can be gleaned by his Disclosure exhibition at Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, in 2008 – a timely mid-career survey show.