There is an understated brevity, a quiet, reserved vulnerability communicated. The visual beauty invites the viewer to contemplate the passage of time and changing seasons. Lau, who is also a landscape architect, has a deep understanding and respect for nature's processes. His art preserves the integrity of the moment and the essence of materials. Each piece is a part of his personal experience and each bit of material within a work contains a private memory.
Art is selective.
It requires a certain distance and evolves from subjective filtering of details. The art in this exhibit is emotive and holds a truth, not the clinical truth of facts but a poetic truth. It is said that histories are made of the lies of victors and that poetry and art unravels those lies. The strength and truth of this exhibit is based on its fragility. An ephemeral past becomes a ghostly presence.