Ahmad Faud Osman had art residencies in Rimbun Dahan in Malaysia, South Korea and Vermont in the United States. He is a founding member of the loose Matahati art collective, together with Bayu Utomo Radjikin, Hamir Soib, Ahmad Shukri, and Masnoor Ramli, the batch of 91 from the Mara Institute of Technology. One of his works is a bleak, wintry landscape with denuded trees and snow underfoot. It is much too cold for one to venture into the woods, but a man in the buff walks with his back to the viewer. The numbing cold is used as a metaphor for being alone, lost and alienated even and certainly confused – probably the emotions gripping him during a two-month residency in Vermont (plus a two-week travel grant to New York) in the United Sta...