Juhari Said displays a profound interest and skill in his woodcut technique such as this surreal piece. The artist Juhari Said pokes fun at the Mat Jenins (idle dreamers) on the foibles of someone or something small trying to become much bigger than presumably and realistically possible. Frogs are restricted to their small ponds and often become fodder to snakes. He implies that it is good to dream but one has to be practical and goes for something that can be within grasp. Juhari Said is one of the finest printmakers today specialising in woodcuts and pushing the technique and medium to Alternative Printmaking like in his free-standing timber sculptures of the OKIR series dubbed ‘Graphic Sculptures' by Indonesian art icon A.D. Pirous. In his final year at the Mara Institute of Technology in Shah Alam in 1983 after a first-year foundation stint in Dungun, he opted to work with the challenging woodcut / linocut media in his final year. In 1988, he held a solo exhibition of his woodcut prints at Galeri Le-Classique in Kuala Lumpur. His printmaking skills were honed when he received a French Government grant to expand his horizon in Paris in 1993 and then again in 1994 when he received mentorship from the ‘sinseh' Yoshisuke Funasaka in Tokyo under the Japan Foundation Research Grant. In Japan, he also learnt the art of paper-making in Mino City which has a tradition dating back 1,300 years. He won the Major Prize (Printmaking) in the 1991 Salon Malaysia for Tiga Cawan Kopi and also the 1985 Permodalan Nasional Berhad Award. He was a Creative Fellow at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang in 2008. In 2009, he was awarded the Anugerah Karyawan Seni by the Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry.