The Legong is one of the most mesmeric and graceful Balinese dances to watch, with the nubile dancers clad in tight shimmering gold-embroidered costumes, to entrancing gamelan music. It demands total expressions of every part of the body, from face and finger gestures and nifty footwork to the head tilt and hip sway. While tied to a fable, it is also a palliative cleansing ritual. This dance with the swaying of fans is probably the Legong Kraton. The artist, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, first unveiled his Balinese works in the Distant Gamelan exhibition at Art Focus Gallery in Singapore in 1998. He had intoned in 1999: "I believe in an artform that represents the physical and spiritual nature of Man, the journey that he undertakes in search of himself and the endless permutations of that journey." Ahmad Zakii Ahmad's career is phenomenal since giving up a lucrative Advertising career to paint fulltime, starting from his sold-out Smokers Series in 1997. He graduated with a Graphic Design diploma from the Mara Institute of Technology in 1977. And in 2008, he was accorded a mid-career survey, Disclosure, at Galeri Petronas, already with a range of astounding series. Solos in the United States (Presence, 1999; Bones and Sinews, 2011), South Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore attest to his calibre.