It's fortuitous that Ibrahim Hussein, later a Datuk, was in London and New York City at a time of great socio-cultural ferment. It's a great zeitgeist with the counter-culture, anti-conformist stirrings of the Jamaican Rastafari, Pop and Beatniks of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. The Rastafari introduced the reggae sounds of the legendary Bob Marley and Marcia Griffiths. Or the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) in London, especially Trafalgar Square. The image of a Rasta woman in an orb with the braided dreadlocks could have been appropriated from commercial posters in NYC, which he juxtaposed next to a cylindrical two-tiered with images in red on a green background in the top panel. There's something Cleopatra-ish about the female head with the heavily sickle eyebrows and enunciated eyelids, as if emerging from nowhere out of a black beyond. This rare work of absolute quality is done in 1969, which means derived from one of the most fecund and incipient periods of Datuk Ibrahim Hussein's multi-faceted artistic developments. At this time, he had developed a technique called printage which initially imprinted in works such as Why You Are The Way You Are; Adakah Seorang Diri Disana; and Tumult. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein has an impeccable international profile with the accolades of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997), Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), and the Monte Carlo Contemporary Art Award (1984). He was the first Malaysian taking part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970. In 1977, he was chosen to exhibit with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in the tripartite masters exhibition in Kuwait. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986. In 2007, he was awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang, apart from the Datuk titles three times. His art tutelage was at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). He is also remembered for setting up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation (Langkawi), which ran his museum, now defunct, and the first Langkawi International Festival of Arts (LIFA). Ib, as the artist is popularly known, was also the prime-mover behind the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.