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Pompeii is an ancient Roman city famous for its archeology site. It was in the year of 79 A.D the city witnessed a gruesome incident when a nearby volcano erupted and caused thousands of people died and the city was buried under thick volcanic ashes. Perhaps this piece is a depiction in the artist's perspective of the city's most dreadful event, in Romanticism. 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 in 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 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 still remains humble.