Hot Day – Nik Mohd Shahfiz

Nik Mohd Shahfiz
140 x 120cm
Oil on Horizontally-cut Canvas Mounted on Canvas
2025
This artwork reimagines a familiar moment of togetherness, a traditional gathering around food through deliberate, rhythmic horizontal cuts made across a painted canvas. At the center, a bowl of ais batu campur (ABC) stands as a symbol of culture, memory and shared experience. The resulting lines introduce a new visual rhythm that reflects both contemporary aesthetics and the layered nature of collective memory. These cuts do not destroy the image but instead reshape it, offering a fresh perspective on how continuity can emerge through transformation. The act of layering and restructuring invites reflection on how tradition and modernity can coexist within a harmonious visual language.