While the title may direct attention to the left corner where an outline of a moustachioed face is discernible, the beauty comes from the textural faience while one may be puzzled somewhat by the slanted white truncated totem on black in the bottom half of the centre.
Najib Ahmad Bamadhaj graduated with a BFA (Hons), majoring in Painting, from the Universiti ITM in 2010. He secured his Diploma from the Lendu, Malacca campus in 2008. His awards include the Malacca TYT Action Portrait (2007), finalist in the MRCB Art Award (2008), 2nd Prize in Johor Open (2009), 1st Prize in both the Tanjung Heritage and Nandos competitions (2010) and Visual Arts Award (National Art Gallery, 2011). His solos entitled Great Migration and Survival were held in Taksu in Kuala Lumpur (2012) and Singapore (2015) respectively. Najib was represented in Art Stage Singapore (2016, 2017), Art Kaohsiung (2015, 2016), Art Expo Malaysia (2013-2017) and the Gwangju Biennale (2016).