Fisherman dream of a big prized catch from the sea as a way to instant riches. Imagine the discovery of a duyung, a mermaid in this case instead of a sea cow. The titular line in Samsudin Wahab's work was taken from the song, Impian Seorang Nelayan, composed by Dato' M. Nasir and sung by the band Kembara. Samsudin could relate to it as he saw how tough a life his father led as a farmer-fisherman in Perak. Nothing like a good catch from a sea outing in the South China Sea rather than berangan-angan (dreaming) of catching the folkloric mermaid, a futile make-belief akin to the Mat Jenin fable. Samsudin Wahab, popularly known as Buden, first emerged in 2008 as a resident-artist at HOM, and began establishing himself as a multimedia artist with strong socio-political thrusts in his works. The next year, he won the Malaysian Emerging Artist Award and was chosen as resident-artist at the reputed Rimbun Dahan. In 2010, he held an artist's residency in India under the aegis of Khazanah Nasional, and he was given a six-month fellowship by Jaafar Ismail's Fergana Art in 2015. Samsudin won the Juror's Award of the Young Contemporary Artists competition in 2013, before clinching the coveted Major Award in 2019. Other awards included 2nd Prize in Goethe Institut's Salon Meets Art (2007), and a Consolation Prize in the Tanjong Heritage competition (2005). He received his BFA, majoring in Printmaking at the Mara Institute of Technology and a Diploma at its Seri Iskandar campus in 2002-2005. He co-founded the printmaking collective, Cetak Kolektif, and was a member of Sebiji Padi Studio and SO Sound, under which he did several art performances.