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Wetlands are like Nature's living museums that help sustain ecological balance whether they be marshes, bogs, mangroves, mudflats or swaps. They help support a biodiversity of life under water, on land and in flight besides the vegetative organisms. The topography looks parched, at turns dessicated even, with a cream-coloured and a parlous off-white veneer, and oxidised pinkish hues and organic ash-like mangroves. But left as it is, it can produce conditions and nutrients including the micro-organisms suitable for sustaining all kinds of life, resident and migratory. This environment-tinged work falls under the ambit of Latiff Mohidin's solo exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum called Journey To The Wetlands and Beyond, from March to May 2009. Latiff Mohidin is a living national art treasure. He is fluent with, and has written in, Bahasa, German and English. Apart from being a two-time winner of the SEA Write Award, he has produced paintings and prints from his iconic Pago-Pago series besides bronze sculptures. His major exhibitions are at the prestigious Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2018 (helmed by the National Gallery Singapore), and a major Retrospective at the National Art Gallery Malaysia in December 2012-June 2013, his second. His art studies were at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in West Berlin, Pratt Institute in New York (John D. Rockefeller III Fellowship), and the Atelier Lacouriere-Frelaut (to study printmaking) in Paris. In the important 1968 Salon Malaysia, he won 2nd Prize (Graphics) in the 1968 Salon Malaysia. In Malaysian literature, he was a Guest Writer at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (1988) and he won the Malaysian Literary Awards from 1972 to 1976.