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This work painted during Latiff Mohidin’s hobo peregrinations in Indo-China after his Berlin studies is based on the wat (Buddhist temple) architecture in Laos looks like a composite of the numerous wat (temples) and stupas in Vientiane, Laos capital city. The wats some harking back to the 16th century, come with distinctive qualities of the own, like the Pha That Luang, Haw Phra Kaew, Wat Si Saket, Wat Ong Teu, Wan Mixai, Ong Teu, Wat Mixai and the That Dam stupa. Similarities abound according to Buddhist precepts and prayer layout, but the differences lie in the local cultural embellishments. Latiff Mohidin is a national treasure in paint, print (printmaking), bronze (sculpture) and letters (poet, essayist and translator), being fluent in three languages – Malay, English and German). He started as a hobo, where he created the iconic Pago-Pago series (1960-1969), the headlined mega three-month exhibition held at the prestigious Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2018, which was organised by the National Gallery Singapore and Pompidou. Latiff was awarded a major Retrospective at the National Art Gallery Malaysia in December 2012 to June 2013, his second. His art studies were at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in West Berlin. He won the John D. Rockefeller III Fellowship to study at Pratt Institute in New York, and the French scholarship to study printmaking at the Atelier Lacouriere-Frelaut in Paris. He also won 2nd Prize (Graphics) in the 1968 Salon Malaysia. In literature, he won the SEA Write Award twice (1984 and 1986) and the Malaysian Literary Awards from 1972 to 1976, and he was also appointed Guest Writer at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in 1988.