Angki Purbandono, a member of the contemporary photography group Ruang MES56, is best known for his Alternative Conceptual Photography using scanographic images done without the use of cameras. Basically they are objects, sometimes Found Objects, created from a flat-bed image scanner and presented in lightboxes. In this, a naked baby doll kneels in prayer on a dirigible of filamentous fungus seemingly floating in a dark background. The incongruity of the new reality may allude to something sinister, but seeing that Angki is known for projecting more positive messages, this could be for a lark, though the aftertaste could be disturbing. An interesting fact is that fungi are more closely related to animals in their molecular phylogenetic process, than either group is to plants! Angki studied in the Modern School of Design, Yogyakarta, in 1993-1994, and furthered his studies at the Indonesian Institute of Art, Yogyakarta, in 1994-1999. He received the Asian Artist Fellowship from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea, at the Changdong Art Studio in 2005-2006. He has had solos in Kuala Lumpur (Kissing The Methods, Richard Koh Fine Art, 2009), Singapore, Hong Kong and Bali, Indonesia. He was included in the ‘Space and Shadows’ Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia exhibition at the Haus World Cultural House in Berlin in 2005. His work, Miss Gorilla, fetched RM3,068 at the Henry Butcher Oct 4, 2015 auction. He had been jailed before for a minor offence, and collaborated with some 20 inmates to create a series of works.