This piece on offer was derived from Latiff's gestural period Gelombang – a series that depicts powerful notions of pure expressions and explosions of movements painted in nature's palette. The manner in which this piece was executed owes to Latiff's exposure to Abstract Expressionism during his years of art education in Berlin as well as a brief stint later in New York. The Gelombang series was conceived after the carefully composed Mindscape, offering an invigorating pulse. The series greeted the Malaysian art scene by surprise with the artist's broad brushwork, swathes of earthy colour and layer upon layer of paint, which was absent in the immaculate and hard outline of the earlier series. Tinges of earthy ochre, green and blue interweave in Latiff's instantly recognisable brushstrokes, dominate and play out against each other. The gestural frenzy combines the scrapingly dry and the lathers of wet in a forward thrust and rigorously so. These intentional gestures aim to exude a surge of excitation, and the urgent and rapid brushstrokes suggest the artist's sense of euphoria. Abdul Latiff Mohidin breaks down barriers of thoughts in lines and forms, on canvas or board or printed on paper, in sculptures and on printed text. He became the toast of Asian art when he was selected to be the first Southeast Asian artist to feature in a major solo at the prestigious Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2018, with his iconic Pago-Pago series no less. The thrust of his themes is in the intellect, the physical structures both natural and manmade juxtaposed in an awkward pose. Fluent in English and Bahasa Malaysia, he added German to his linguistic repertoire. As poet and writer, he had won the Malaysian Literary Awards from 1972-1976, besides the SEA Write Award twice (1984, 1986), and was also guest writer in Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (1988). His tutelage was tripartite – German: DAAD German Academy in Bonn; American: John D. Rockefeller III Fellowship; and French: Printmaking at Atelier La Courier in Paris. Early on in his career, he won the 2nd Prize (Graphic) in the hugely coveted Salon Malaysia in 1968.