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One can see that this piece is exhibiting rage and anger in totality. Both of this feeling comes when there is an unsettled issues lingering in a person’s mind, body and soul. Most of the time we tried to contain it, but we all have our patience. Once it reached our limit, the game is over. The title of the artwork could suggest referring to the greediness of the politicians, exploiting their power and positions to reap maximum benefits for their own selfish interests and agendas (financially and politically), enriching themselves by squeezing the public, rendering the citizens to suffer, to be in pain and sometimes, fear. Sabihis has been a full-time artist since he graduated from the Universiti ITM with a BFA, majoring in Printmaking, in 2011 (Diploma in UiTM Machang, Kelantan, 2009). He made headlines when his woodcut print, Awang Hitam, won him the Malaysian Emerging Artist Award competition in 2013. In 2014, he won the Bronze Award for Established Artists category of the UOB Painting of the Year. He was in the Studio Pisang group with Shafiq Nordin and Hisyamuddin Abdullah featured in the Attract Retract exhibition at G13 Gallery in November 2015. He has been represented in Art Expo Malaysia since 2014. He took part in the 2015 Art Bazaar Jakarta, and was selected for the exhibition called The Collective Young From Southeast Asia at Mizuma Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore in 2015. He won the Young Guns Award in 2017. With 3 Awards under his belt, being the ‘Award Collector’, he remains humble.