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Love is in the air. The intimate moment reminds one of Nat King Cole's sentimental 1957 hit song, Fascination. It was fascination, I know Seeing you alone with the moonlight above Then I touched your hand and next moment I kissed you Fascination turned to love One can feel the profusive sweet nothings, the tender professions of love as two souls touch with promises of abiding care for each other. This work stemming from the positivism of Post-911 marks a major emotional turning-point in Eng Tay's ouevre of family love, where love encompasses broader humanism and community. Eng Tay, a shortened form of his real name Tay Eng Chye, bucked the Eurocentric trend of Malaysians in art studies by enrolling in the Big Apple, first at the Art Students League and then the Pratt Graphics Centre. He developed and circumscribed his own figure types especially of the feminine forms for something earthy and traditional-looking, and made a huge impact with his graphics, and later 3D works in bronze and ceramics. Then, the twin attacks of 911 (2001) on the World Trade Centre in New York shook him to the core, and he came out with his landmark series on Columbus Park, significantly called Paradise Park previously, which he introduced in the 2009 Retrospective accorded him by Galeri Petronas Kuala Lumpur.