Eng Tay, the internationally renowned glam name for Kedah ‘kampung boy’ Tay Eng Chye, has created a seamless composition celebrating life among three companions with the resonance of music and a soothing greyish backdrop. The trio is shaped like a mountain, the left in front with a Mandolin (plucked with a plectrum), the middle with back turned with the violin (played with a bow) and the one on the right either shorter or in a sitting position, blowing a bamboo flute. All these by the light of the silvery moon, the circle being a symbol of perfection and constancy. The billowing forms of the physiques of the trio seem to amplify the musical strains. Eng Tay set out to New York to study in the Art Students League (1968-72), with a Graphic Design degree in the School of Visual Arts. In 1972-78, he was a participating artist at the Pratt Graphics Centre. He first carved his niche in printmaking and expanded his repertoire to sculptures, ceramics and large-sized paintings. He was honoured with a Retrospective by Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, in 2009, and later commissioned to do monumental sculptures at Kiaraville, SENI Condominiums in Mont Kiara and Zehn in Bukit Pantai in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. His latest exhibition in Malaysia was called Eng Tay: Works from 2005-2015, at Art Accent gallery in October 2015. Eng Tay’s works are in the collections of major Malaysian institutions apart from the Fukuyama Museum of Art in Hiroshima, Japan; the Frankie Valli Estate and the Merv Griffin Estate in the United States; the New York University (Department of Anthropology), and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.