The rhinoceros tangled with one another performing close bonds between the two. It seems like they are enjoying each other’s company and making sure they are having fun. Taking inspiration from the forms in nature, the work contains Ng Bee’s trademark of an intricate network of oil-based cross-hatches, spirals and oval shapes within the configurations. Ng Bee is better known as Mr. Sasaran for the Sasaran International Art Festival that he founded in 2008 with 35 artists from nine countries taking part. Believing in the mantra, ‘Art Belongs to Everyone’, he has put Sasaran, a sleepy fishing village in Selangor on the world map, but its unique quality is that it has the support of the whole village — fishermen, farmers, traders, schools… It now boasts of its own museum and a sculpture park besides murals and artworks all over town. Ng Bee’s early education was in the Pik Hwa School in Klang, known for producing artists. Good in art but not in studies, he enrolled at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, graduating in 1976. He pursued further education at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, graduating in 1979. Since his first solo at the New Straits Times’ Balai Berita called Intensity, Emotion and Enigma in 2001, he had several other solos including one at the Blue Space Art Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2006.