There's no telling how and where all the genetic tinkering will lead to, no matter how innocuous the intent. After the excitement of cloning Dolly The Sheep, the experiments have expanded to human body parts, and even a full human! Imagine, cloning a Hitler or an Einstein, will he turn out to be the next Frankenstein? There’s the question of Nature versus Nurture. Animals are being miniaturised like the teacup puppies and the Serama (ayam katik) or dwarf chicken in the late 1990s. The Serama, developed in Kelantan, lies at the core of Ahmad Shukri Mohamed’s Incubator Series, with probable allusions to social engineering. There’s no dichotomy of the elements with what looks like nucleic cells all over. Moral or ethical issues may rankle, but the aesthetics of harmonising and manufactured conflicts in this art piece is another form of tinkering. Ahmad Shukri Mohamed strikes a high profile among members of the art collective Matahati. His accolades include 1st Prize in the one-off Malaysian Art Open (1994), Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) (1997), and the Minor Award in the Mural Satu Malaysia competition (2014). He was one of the five national winners in the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards in 1997 and 1999, winning the Jurors Choice in the finals in the Philippines in 1997. His artist’s residencies included Rimbun Dahan (2003) and Echt (Holland, 2013). His notable participation includes the Asean Art Show in Fukuoka (1994), the Sharjah Biennale (2003) and Emaar Symposium in Dubai, UAE (2004), the Asian Biennale in Bangladesh (2001), the Asian Workshop in Gazipur, Bangladesh (2002) and the Brande Workshop in Denmark (2002). His 9th solo Monuments was held at Segaris Art Centre, Kuala Lumpur, from October to November 2019.