Fancy Awang Damit Ahmad inured to singing the travails of working on earth and water in his native Kuala Penyu romancing the legend of Gunung Ledang. Ledang, a name that conjures up mysticism, romance, magic and adventure, and according to local folklore something unattainable if one has no good intentions or virtues. Still couched in his Essence Of Culture series (EOC, Intipati Budaya), Awang Damit uses a bifurcating duo-view to envisage the treacherous ascend up, steep and precipitous, to the peak of the sacred Mount Ophir, where the fabled fairy princess resides. It was a love triangle when the 15th Century Malacca Sultan Mahmud tasked the great warrior Hang Tuah to convey the royal matrimonial suit to Puteri Gunung Ledang, who had deep affections for Hang Tuah. This great Ledang legend was made into a lavish motion picture in 2004, starring Tiara Jacquelina and M. Nasir, and directed by Saw Teong Hin. Gunung Ledang, dubbed Kim Sua (Golden Mountains) by the Chinese, straddles Johor and Malacca. Awang Damit Ahmad was a late-starter in art, quitting his job as a Telekom Malaysia technician at the age of 27, to take up Fine Art at the Mara Institute of Technology (later a university) and topping the class in 1983. He studied for his Masters at the Catholic University in Washington DC. In 1988, he won 2nd Prize in a competition organised by the banks, and that year, his work was chosen for the Contemporary Malaysian art exhibition at the Asia-Pacific Museum in Pasadena, Los Angeles. Awang was in the entourage for the exhibition opening and visiting many art-museums while sketching copiously. In 1991, Awang won the Major Prize in Salon Malaysia III, with his work, Nyanyian Petani Gunung (now in Petronas Collection). He taught at the Universiti ITM and retired as Associate Professor in May 2011.