PAPER MOON
“Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me
Yes, it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me.”
Fenny Wong’s first collection is very much like the lyrics of Paper Moon.
It is about separation, but also how people counter it with hope.
In the 1930s, another heartbreaking World War began. It made people waved goodbye to loved ones, not knowing when to see each other again. Even when they were crying, they believed their loved ones will return.
Also in the 1930s, the era of Great Depression of economic crisis. People seek elegance in other ways more subtle if compared to the lavish style in the 1920s. It’s a search of elegance in an age of crisis.
It is about how things are really beautiful, if only we believe.
The era of 1930s started with a wave of economic depression, which contrasted the abundance of wealth in the 1920s. In the era of shortage, people could still learn how to be happy with what they have, because things were beautiful depending on how we see them to be.
