Painting on a round canvas demands a different approach from say, if one were to paint on a rectangle or a square. The series may be the same, but the shape dictates and defines the content. Even with the lottery of chance and intent, the composition will revolve around a circular trajectory, as the edges are all moving the way a cat chases its tail. In a horizon scale, the edges are 90-degrees sharp at the ends. Dato’ Tajuddin Ismail started playing with circular paintings in the early 2000s. A sonorous tactility comes from the mixture of acrylic and some natural fibrous materials. A myriad constellation or an undersea bio-organisms – take what you will, it’s pleasing to the eye, playing with illusion of dimensions and space. After graduating from the Mara Institute of Technology in 1973, Dato’ Tajuddin Ismail studied at the Art Centre College of Design, Los Angeles (Graphic Design, 1974), Pratt Institute, New York (post-graduate Interior Architecture, 1981; apprenticed to Massimo Vignelli). A Fulbright research fellow (1987), he won the Minor Awards in the National Drawing Competition (1977), the National Graphic Art competition (1978), the Salon Malaysia (1979), and the National Design Council (1994). He retired as Associate Professor of Fine Art and Interior Architecture at Universiti ITM.