Tongue And Egg is suggestively erotic, coming from Long Thien Shih's prints of ‘dismembered' naked torsos and limbs, with a surrealist bent. The prints during this period are biting commentaries on sexual and environmental concerns. Long Thien Shih was already active in art at a young age since he won the 1st Prize in the Young Artists, Malaya competition in 1961, and was given his first solo at Samat Gallery in 1965, and then in Gallery 11 in 1966, and Melbourne's Crossley Gallery in 1967. He was given the French Government award to study at the Atelier 17 and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, and furthered his studies at the Royal College of Art in London. It was a retrospective of sorts when he held the Man Of The Times exhibition at the National Art Gallery Malaysia in 2014.