La Nostalgie I is an intricately executed etching piece presenting a figure traversing through a barren landscape. Resembling a black and white film still, the poetic composition reveals the artist's refined sensitivity to lines, textures, and subtle transitions of light and dark hues. Chong Siew Ying's art flourish is reminiscent of Lai Foong Moi by four decades. Not satisfied with a diploma (Graphic Design, Petaling Jaya College of Art), she headed to study at the L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Versailles) and the L'Atelier 63 in France, sustaining herself as an au pair, while chalking up solos at the Maison Tch'A, Atelier d'Maravel and Gallery Cafe Panique. On her return, Rimbun Dahan didn't blink in giving her an art residency, which she followed up with the Freemont Fellowship at Vermont Studio Centre, United States. She won the Special Award in the 2002 Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition and was a finalist in the Hong Kong Sovereign Art Prize in 2009. She was in the travelling Malaysian Shadows and Images exhibition in Malmo (Sweden), Barcelona and Madrid (Spain), and featured in the 2015 Art Stage Singapore.