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Identification and Creation Object Number 2011.17 People Fung Ming Chip (Feng Mingqiu) 馮明秋, Chinese (born 1951) Title Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script Classification Calligraphy Work Type album leaf Date 2009 Places Creation Place: East Asia, China, Hong Kong Culture Chinese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/336549 Physical Descriptions Medium Album leaf; ink on paper; with artist signature reading Ming Chip shu (i.e. Mingqiu shu); with four seals of the artist; written in Time Script Dimensions Calligraphy proper: H. 17.3 x W. 64.1 cm (6 13/16 x 25 1/4 in.) Mounting: H. 50 x W. 70.1 cm (19 11/16 x 27 5/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks signature: The dated artist signature reads: 明秋書于深圳四不館 Mingqiu shu yu Shenzhen Si Bu Guan 贰零零玖年六月十八日 Er ling ling jiu nian liu yue shi ba ri 順時字 Shun shi zi The signature can be translated as: Ming Chip wrote [this] in [his] Si Bu Guan [i.e., Studio of the Four No’s] in Shenzhen [On] 18 June 2009 Time Script The four seals, which the artist himself carved, and their locations can be described as follows: Far right: Square, red, intaglio seal reading Ming 明 (first character of the artist’s given name) Second from right: Square, red, intaglio seal reading Jian Zhi Ji Li 見之吉利 (“Seeing this brings good fortune”) Second from left: Rectangular, red, relief seal reading Ming Chip (Ming Qiu) 明秋 (artist’s given name) (Note that this rectangular seal is carved to simulate two, separate, square, red, relief seals) Far left: Square, red, pictorial seal reading Yun 雲 (“Cloud”) inscription: The inscribed text reads as follows: 大麻之後 麻後的幸福 掙扎扭動 張向空虛空間 交錯狂亂 上下舞成一片 走著走著 越出價值意義之外 踏破禁錮時光的囚籠 邁向夜的盡頭 命的盡頭 一踏足 一轉身 又自覺地沉淪到底 靈魂超脫 得成正果 明秋書于深圳四不館 贰零零玖年六月十八日 順時字 The text can be translated as follows: Post-Marijuana The happiness that follows marijuana The twisting and turning Stretching into empty space Craziness and chaos intermingling Mixing good and evil Moving on and on Beyond the sense of value Breaking the shackles of the prisoner’s age of time Striding towards the edge of the night The furthest edge of life Treading, spinning Consciously sinking to the bottom Detached from the soul To become a saint Provenance Recorded Ownership History Fung Ming Chip, Hong Kong (2009-2010), sold; to Susan L. Beningson, New York, 2010, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2011. Footnotes: This work was created by Fung Ming Chip in Hong Kong in 2009. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Susan L. Beningson and Steve Arons in memory of Renée Beningson Accession Year 2011 Object Number 2011.17 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with twenty columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters and thus of varying lengths. The text was inscribed on this album leaf by Fung Ming Chip (b. 1951; standard Mandarin transcription: Feng Mingqiu). The calligraphy on this album leaf is divided textually into two parts: the sixteen columns of characters beginning at the right edge and extending through most of the composition, which constitute the text, “Post-Marijuana”, and the four columns at the far left, which are written seamlessly with the text itself but which constitute the dated signature. The leaf is inscribed with a total of 100 characters, the text comprising seventy eight characters arranged in sixteen columns, and the dated signature comprising twenty two characters arranged in four columns—the last column (i.e., the column at the far left) includes just three characters ("shun shi zi") and is set apart from the others. Written with watery, medium gray ink on a white ground, the characters of the text are written in xingshu, or cursive script, in a manner that the artist characterizes as Time Script. The text is a challenge to read because the characters in each column typically overlap, just as the columns overlap. The boldly written signature comprises twenty two characters in four columns. The leaf is dated to 2009 by inscription; for the numbers in the date, the artist used the elaborate characters that typically are reserved for official documents and business records. This album leaf includes four seals of the artist, which run in something of a horizontal line across the center of the composition and which identify it as a work of Fung Ming Chip. The four seals, which the artist himself carved, and their locations can be described as follows: Far right: Square, red, intaglio seal reading "Ming" (first character of the artist’s given name) Second from right: Square, red, intaglio seal reading "Jian Zhi Ji Li"(“Seeing this brings good fortune”) Second from left: Rectangular, red, relief seal reading "Ming Chip" (Ming Qiu) (artist’s given name) (Note that this rectangular seal is carved to simulate two, separate, square, red, relief seals) Far left: Square, red, pictorial seal reading "Yun" (“Cloud”) The inscribed text can be translated as follows: Post-Marijuana The happiness that follows marijuana The twisting and turning Stretching into empty space Craziness and chaos intermingling Mixing good and evil Moving on and on Beyond the sense of value Breaking the shackles of the prisoner’s age of time Striding towards the edge of the night The furthest edge of life Treading, spinning Consciously sinking to the bottom Detached from the soul To become a saint The dated artist signature reads: Mingqiu shu yu Shenzhen Si Bu Guan Er ling ling jiu nian liu yue shi ba ri Shun shi zi The signature can be translated as: Ming Chip wrote [this] in [his] Si Bu Guan [i.e., Studio of the Four No’s] in Shenzhen [On] 18 June 2009 Time Script Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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