This piece features a farmer and water buffalo working on paddy field, overlooking a beautiful scenic view of a countryside. Buffaloes are formerly used to plough muddy paddy fields although the use of mechanised methods, such as small powered ploughs, has become much more common in recent years. Long Thien Shih won a French government scholarship to study art in 1966 and was enrolled in the internationally renowned printmaking studio Atelier 17, founded by William Stanley Hayter, a prominent figure in British Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Long was honoured with a retrospective exhibition titled Man Of The Times at National Art Gallery Malaysia in 2014. In 2018, he participated in a group exhibition titled The Art Of Printmaking: Lasting Impressions, which was held at Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur.