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With the brilliant play of coloured dots vying for attention with the faint glow of the street lamps, Eston Tan has accomplished a fugue of sheer poetry. The ‘action’ revolves around a corner junction of Chulia Street in Penang, where a steaming hot meal on a wet, rainy night is just around the corner from a roadside hawker or a kopitiam inside the building. Details of the louvred window facades and the large triangle pediments are lost in the shadows from the nuances of dark encrusted colours etched with faint ribbed outlines. Eston Tan has gone fulltime into art since 2000, and is adept at both the brush and palette knife, as attested in this oil on canvas work.