On the streets of Kuala Lumpur, the human presence has never been singular. Different languages, skin tones, forms of labour, and personal dreams move along the same pavements, forming the city's most immediate social fabric. This body of work does not attempt to portray a beautified notion of"diversity," but in­stead fomses on the faces often overlooked in daily life-migrant workers, pedestrians, vendors, people resting between shifts, and those newly arrived in the city. They form the pulse of movement and labour that sustains the metropolis. The paintings employ quick, translucent, and layered brush­strokes-sometimes scraped, sometimes blurred-to respond to the fluidity of identity. Colour in these portraits does not settle; it drifts, seeps, and erodes, ed10ing the unstable positions these in­dividuals occupy in the social imagination. The intentional in­completeness at the edges, the fleeting marks, and the partial forms all mirror the ambiguity of their visibility within the urban landscape. Kuala Lumpur is never merely a backdrop; it is a constantly shifting site of inclusion, exclusion, and reinvention. Through these portraits, I hope viewers can encounter a more grounded portrait of the city-one shaped collectively by strangers, passers-by, and labourers, whose presences continue to write the evolving story of Malaysia. This series was previously included in Afterwork, a major group exhibition curated by Para Site and ILHAM Gallery in 2016, focusing on issues of class, labour, and race.