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Abdul Latiff Mohidin's Mindscape is a fixed dome portal where ephemeral thoughts travel through space and time usually with the markings, whether textural or tonal, espousing a singular theme like psychedelia, chaos or sedation. This is from the second tranche, from 1979 to 1985, where an irregular orange blob takes centrestage, the periphery blotted with squiggles 'floating' in space. At the bottom of the inner dome is infested with reddish dot profusions on a darker blue veneer. This is a mood Mindscape using colours - the base colour is blue - and where slivers of raw, dirty yellow pepper the whole composition. Wrote Tengku Sabri Ibrahim, curator of 60 Years of Latiff Mohidin Retrospective: "Compositions in the Mindscape 2 series largely integrate architectural forms - arches and domes - in which are to be found shapes resembling 'doors'. These compositions are based on a single-point perspective with crossing lines running towards the middle. Painter-printmaker -sculptor-poet Latiff Mohidin made a quantum leap in his career as an artist when his landmark Pago-Pago (1960-1969) was exhibited at the world-class venue, Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2018. A national treasure, Latiff was accorded his second Retrospective (Latiff Mohidin 60 Years) by the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 2012-2013. Latiff was trained at three great institutions: the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Berlin; the Atelier La Courier-Frelaut, Paris; and Pratt Institute, New York. He was awarded 2nd Prize (Graphic) in the Salon Malaysia in 1968. He is a literary giant, having won the SEA Write Award in Bangkok in 1984 and 1986, the National Literary Award in 1984 and 1986, and the Malaysian Government literary prize from 1972-1976. He was a Creative Fellow at Universiti Sains Malaysia (1977) and a guest writer at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (1988).