The intrepid artist Tan Wei Kheng goes deep into the  rainforest interiors of Sarawak to put faces to indigenous tribes-people eking a living with resources of the land. He met this Kelabit elder in a longhouse in Bario in 1995. He had also painted other Orang Ulu tribespeople like the Kayan, Kenyah, Penan and Iban from other settlements including Sungai Asap, Long Tugan in Ulu Baram, Long Napir in Ulu Limbang near the Brunei border. This regal portrait of the Kelabit woman was brilliantly captured with her weather-beaten look, accentuating the finely etched lines of ageing. But she had kind eyes, a good set of teeth and silver peach earrings hung prominently at the end of her elongated ears. She was also adorned with bead necklaces. The work was shown in the Forgotten Beauty exhibition in 2018, first at Richard Koh Fine Art in Kuala Lumpur (April 10-24), and the Old Court House in Kuching (July 6-15). "I felt sad that this beauty is slowly vanishing and being forgotten," the artist was quoted as saying. Miri-based Tan Wei Kheng, a self-taught artist, started going on expeditions into the Sarawak interiors in 1992, when he ferreted out and more than fleshed out these great indigenous people, hinting at their struggles. He had his first solo in 1991 at the Miri Boat Club but he shot to fame in a sold-out exhibition, Nostalgia of Tribal Borneo, at the Gallery Avanthay Contemporary in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2009. Since then, he had featured in major international events like the Kuala Lumpur Biennial (2018), Art Stage Singapore (2016), Beijing Biennial (2015), and the Singapore Biennial (2013).