A ruminative cartography of life experiences with great expanse of cooling greens all over and generally subdued palette. The forms are looser, fragmentary and not locked in but not totally unlinked either, so it’s a Mindscape of smoothened nerves and a spotless mind. This was done at a time of Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Zubir’s tactile second tranche of Touch The Earth modelling paste compound works, and at the same time of exhibitions at the Singapore Art Museum and the Malaysian art travelling show starting in Germering, Germany. Goes to show that in a year, an artist could be preoccupied with a few core dalliances. Dato’ Sharifah comes from the pioneering batch of fine art students from the Mara Institute of Techbology (now a university), graduating in 1971. Then came her BFA at Reading University, England (1973-1976), and MFA at Pratt Institute, New York (1976-1978), under the JDR III Fund fellowship. She won the Minor Award in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972 and the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1981. In 1979, she captured the coveted Major Award in the Salon Malaysia. In 2003, she won 3rd Prize in the Islamic World Painting Biennial in Teheran, Iran. She has never looked back since her first solo at the Alpha Gallery in Singapore in 1972. For her tremendous contributions, she was conferred a Datoship by the Sultan of Kedah in 2006.