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Despite his young age, Shida’s works have been increasingly embraced by Australian and European galleries alike. An artist’s artist, his cheeky, vicious sprites and snarling extradimensional figures are textured by sharp angles and translucent skeletons, shaded with rich colours in their predatory motions. Stencil technique in visual art is also referred to as pochoir. A related technique (which has found applicability in some surrealist compositions) is aerography, in which spray-painting is done around a three-dimensional object to create a negative of the object instead of a positive of a stencil design. This technique was used in cave paintings dating to 10,000 BC, where human hands were used in painting hand print outlines among paintings of animals and other objects. The artist sprayed pigment around his hand by using a hollow bone, blown by mouth to direct a stream of pigment.