Art starts by boredom / Dr. TANG Ying-chi

Art starts by boredom / Dr. TANG Ying-chi

TSE Lok Lun Laurence, as I know, follows a strict order whenever he is at work or at rest. When he seeks for the direction of creation, this redundant and probably boring condition of life immediately becomes the artistic content which Tse wants to explore.

The mode of administration and division of labor in contemporary society assigns manpower in different posts, and has them carry out different tasks according to different schedules. The infrastructure in a society also takes similar divergent measure, guides people to the facility which decides according to order and systematic principle, to fulfill the need of social mobility. Certainly, each person also has his or her own personal biological clock; actually, this is also a kind of rule. However, the difference between personal rule and social order is that the former is intrinsic advancement, while the latter is the conditional constraint. The intrinsic advancement is natural, but the conditional constraint is external, like the time you get up every morning; due to the time limit of business, one needs a clock to guarantee that work is finished within a certain period of time. Other matters like staircase design, people go up step by step by the orderly stave, to achieve an effective lifestyle. There seems to be not too many external compulsion situations, but each person is still required to conform to certain formats, so as to complete certain business in perfect order according to rules.

The work of Laurence Tse, starts by his feeling, by the repetition of images or symbolic analogy of objects, especially clocks and staircases we see in his work, represents that kind of unconscious life pattern, expects to arouse viewers’introspection. Tse's work explores the delivery point of life and artistic power, and attempts to find the important direction of daily life, also to discover his artistic concern from life experience.

Dr. TANG Ying-chi