Puah Kok Yew, better known as Kok Yew Puah, relished in featuring family members and friends on his canvas, the way he projected his hometown Klang onto the world. There are two portraits, one of himself in a slightly skewered baseball cap with the words, White Sox, emblazoned, probably after the professional American baseball team Chicago White Sox, and the other, his friend, still with the crash helmet over his head, but without a visor. It was so casual and informal. The artist himself was clad in a white singlet, and his friend, dark-coloured, likely black, but both were wearing sunglasses, indicating a sweltering weather. The title adjective, Important, was probably just his kind of humour or a clickbait, to intrigue interest on what was so 'important' or why the two unidentified portraits are 'important' at all. In Klang, where Kok Yew Puah was based all his life, except for a studying stint in Australia, it was then easier to travel on a motorbike. With the serrated photo-still reel, it looked like a photograph. Was it copied from a photograph, or was it rendered in mock photo film, numbering 21, 21A and 22? A Photo-Realism take, perhaps? Kok Yew Puah was given a comprehensive Memorial exhibition, Kok Yew Puah: Portrait Of A Malaysian Artist, at Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, from February to April 2022. Though he had a 1973 solo at Samat Art Gallery, KL, of his large silkscreens, there were limited exposures of his works - in only two subsequent solos, Kok Yew Puah: 1985-1993, and Klang And Beyond (1997), both inspired by the British artist David Hockney. In 2004-2005, he was given an earlier tribute exhibition. In 1994, he was placed 2nd in the Malaysian Philip Morris Asean Art Awards, and was again one of the five jurors' choices the next year. He had lectured part-time on printmaking at the Mara Institute of Technology. He had his art tutelage at the Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia, graduating in 1972 with diplomas in Painting and Printmaking. He was also one of the co-founders of the Malaysian Contemporary Watercolours Association (1994).