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Little things coalesce to make a monumental whole. Fragmentary, disparate and broken even, the accidental tentacular hooks or stray loose lines sometimes enjoin or are meshed by the radiance of the colours at bay to make a cohesive tapestry. Little things, when combined together, have strength and a unity of purpose besides power. Most of all, there can be power in little things, with all their intricate connections or distractions. In this work, Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was easily into the second decade of his play of his intrinsic ribbons of rhythmic lines. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is the most internationally high-profiled with international decorations to boot: The Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1981), Venezuela’s Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile’s Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996) and the highly prestigious World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award (1997). He founded the Ibrahim Hussein Museum in Langkawi, launched in 2000, but it had closed because of mounting high maintenance. Ib, as he is popularly known, captured celebrity status when he was selected to exhibit with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali at the Dhalat Abdulla Al-Salam Gallery in Kuwait in 1977. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery Malaysia in 1986. He was educated at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting in London (1963) and the Royal Academy (1966) in London. He visited the United States on a Fulbright scholarship (1967) and the John D. Rockefeller III Fund fellowship (1967-68).