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Hamidi Hadi is one of the more exciting abstract artists to have emerged in the last decade. Using a multiplicity of media and with different techniques, he has created his own repertoire of contemplative Minimalist works about and from Nature and couched in spirituality. Moving his studio to a more salubrious surroundings of Seri Iskandar in Perak has aided more the kind of works he is doing. In this work, he plays with a curtain of tiny droplets of rain, ‘coloured’ and dew-like against soft overlapping stains with a depth of field on a creamy backdrop. The raindrop veneer in straight parallel drips provide an orderly grid as the stains of different hues bob out and back of one’s consciousness, like breaths of Nature. The title, ‘In the eye of the beholder,’ posits a claim of ‘aesthetic relativism’ while the associative word, beauty, is dropped. Hamidi’s talents were spotted earlier on by Weiling Gallery which gave him his first solo, Indelible Markings, at its gallery then called Townhouse Gallery in 2005. It hosted his next five solos namely Alun (2007), Timang-Timang (2009), Antara (2012), BALAM (2014) and Dari Langit dan Bumi (2016). But Hamidi already showed his potential when he won the Malaysian Juror’s Award of the Asean Art Award in 2000. He was selected for the Kembara Jiwa (Journey of Soul) exhibition, organised by Galeri Chandan, at Bandung and Jakarta in 2012. He also took part in Art Stage Jakarta in 2017. He was also involved in the Asean Biennale Art Award in 1996 and 2000. He obtained his Masters in Art & Design at the University of Wolverhampton, Britain in 2002, after his BFA at the Universiti Mara Institute of Technology (UiTM) in 2000. Hamidi teaches at UiTM Perak.