Old Man of the Forest

Charcoal on cotton paper

Medium

Charcoal on paper

Dimensions

50 × 70 cm

Year

2025

An orangutan's gaze surfaces from the strangler fig — patient, ancient, watching. Drawn by hand in compressed and willow charcoal on heavyweight cotton paper in Ahmad's studio near Kota Kinabalu. Signed on the front, dated on the reverse, and shipped flat with a certificate of authenticity.