Haffendi Anuar (b. 1985) initially studied at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, USA before completing his BFA at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UK. He also obtained an MFA at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University. His current work focuses on ‘kain pelikat’, a plaid tubular ‘maleskirt’ sometimes worn domestically as an informal labour uniform in parts of the global South. Contextualised within his childhood memories, his research into the iconography of the garment encompasses family photos, archival photographs, Internet images and texts on Malaysia written by colonial writers researching the fabric’s origin, social utilisation, visual patterns and formal structure. From the materials gathered, he reimagines the fabric as ‘constructions’, drawing inspiration from man-made and animal-made architecture. His process combines collage, dyeing, painting, image transfer and sewing.