Bagus.

The first thing you notice is what's missing: the tusks. Bagus is a makhna, one of those Asian elephants born without them, and that's why his face looks rounder, more shopkeeper than mountain animal. He wears the mustard corduroy shirt buttoned up and the brown gentleman's waistcoat over it, as if he'd just opened the stall. The background, a plain celadon green, lets the color of the corduroy and the calm of that gaze carry all the weight. On a wall, it reads at a glance.

In his story, Bagus runs a stall in the high market of Liwa, a mountain city in Sumatra so cool and full of flowers that they call it Kota Berbunga, the city of flowers. An elephant dispensing remedies? Here, yes: he makes jamu, the remedies of roots, bark and spices ground by hand, and diagnoses by smell, sniffing out the ailment before naming it. This poster doesn't tell all of that; it takes his face out of the story and puts it on a wall, with that mix of calm shopkeeper and old sage. If you take a liking to this elephant, there's more of him in his biography.