Most of my works were influenced or inspired by Malay culture, proverbs and paradigm. This involves a combination of human and animal imageries in representing characters and their characteristics. Besides passion and feelings, I always try to experiment with the medium and materials together with the zoomorphic beings as subject matter in my work by turning them into sometimes cynical takes or a parody of current local issues, geopolitics and the surrounding socio-cultural dynamics in contemporary context. The animal images in my work are meant to express my observations of an issue or my criticism of human behaviour. In ‘Behind Animals’, I press my imagination further especially on a number of animal characters that are always playing in my head. They appear together in my current work which also includes my own self portrait to represent the active world of my imagination that always seek to come up with something new and different through my art making.
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Behind Animal
2016
200 x 244 cm
Mixed media on canvas
