Miracle Horse

Looking back at childhood, Lau did not have a lot of toys to play with. The “Miracle Horse” was his playmate in many of the happiest hours in his early life. However the Miracle Horse was not an actual horse—it was actually a dining chair that came into life with Lau’s own imagination. The back of the chair represented the neck, the seat the horseback, the four legs the limbs. As a child, Lau particularly liked to make the legs rattle by rocking on horseback with his arms wrapped around its neck.
Now an artist and a designer, Lau has created this larger-than-life chair stallion. Covered in a traditional floral pattern that was popular among households in Tainan in the old days, the sculpture represents the innocent pleasure and simple happiness that characterize childhood. It also represents Lau’s attempt to rekindle the simple happiness in viewers living in a world driven by materialistic desires