LOT 22
CHANG FEE MING
B. Terengganu, 1959
Lotus (Mukdahan), 2000
Watercolour and ink on envelope
13.5 x 17.5 cm
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
Signed “F M Chong” and dated ‘00 on lower right
RM 7,000 – 12,000
Fee Ming’s envelopes and postcards allude to a variety of practices and customs. First day covers are maybe the most obvious, but these works are a subversion of them. They undermine the idealised nationhood paradigm. It would be a mistake to see and understand these works merely as drawings or studies, and to rate them solely on line or paint quality. Aesthetics is only one of several layers. These works have become documents with various narratives as a result of the method by which they were conceived and created. They are personal and geographical travel documents about the art of journeying and travelling. Observing and transforming information and experience. Of location and country, past and present, transitory and permanent.