His personal project, Vague Vogue, explores artistic legacies as ever-evolving narratives. Like stories passed down from generation to generation, works of art are read and received differently at different points in time. Artist's legacies are hence open-ended rather than fixed. Reflecting on how to archive an idea or process which others can re-interpret, changing the final artwork each time.

In archiving his works, Chee Kiong is mindful of how future generations of artists and audiences might interpret and appropriate his ideas and processes, inspiring new iterations of his works that would acquire new significance within a changed context. His legacy would endure through his works which are constantly remade using similar processes and methods by different hands.

A Beauty Centre (ABC), his project of 7 years, delves into the enduring question, “What is Art?” He encourages audiences and curators to re-interpret the meanings of his previous works without his direct input, relinquishing traditional artistic authorship. Chee Kiong advocates for a participatory approach where the audience is actively involved in shaping the meanings of the work beyond his original intentions. This decentres the artist as the sole, authoritative creator and invites open-ended dialogue, allowing the artwork to shape-shift through discourse.

In his Bubblelloon series, Yeo Chee Kiong playfully explores the idealized state of imaginative perfection, reflecting the sculptor’s pursuit of giving form to beauty. Speaking to us—a group of young, aspiring artists—he explains the difficulties he faced in appealing to curators and stakeholders with his conceptually oriented practice, which tends to favor the process over the product. His vision was eventually executed in his 2016 show at NAFA Gallery 1 & 2, curated by Tan Yen Peng.