Through capturing imagery of floating lights on street after midnight when the busy city was calming down, this video animation aspires to evoke a nostalgic sensibility for Macao, a tranquil peninsula in southern China near Hong Kong. As a reflection and questioning to the prosperous economic development in a city well-known for tourism industry, this work provokes the audiences into the search of the deeper meaning of life and happiness.

Lampo Leong, PhD from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and MFA from California College of the Arts, is a Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Advisor, and Director of the Center for Arts and Design at the University of Macau, a Tenured Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the USA and a Visiting Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Leong has served as judge or curator for over 80 art and design competitions and exhibitions and delivered over 280 lectures at esteemed institutions such as Stanford University, UC Berkeley and China Academy of Art. Leong’s work has been featured in Christie’s and worldwide in more than 70 solo exhibits and over 460 juried or curated national or international group exhibitions. He has received over 120 awards, including Red Dot Award: Best of the Best in Germany, Gold Medal at American Good Design, and MUSE Award. Leong’s works are housed in more than ten museum collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. His public art and design commissions include paintings for Columbia City Hall and an 8-meter-diameter granite inset calligraphic medallion for a San Francisco city park. Leong’s achievements have been documented in over 1000 reviews and publications in magazines, art books, and on TV internationally, including the front cover of New Art International in New York, Creative Genius: 100 Contemporary Artists in London, and Art Frontier in the USA.

Centre for Arts and Design in the University of Macau aims at establishing a platform for international exchange and collaborations. Through interdisciplinary research and cultivating arts and design talents via PhD and MA programs, it endeavors to promote creativity in the fields of arts, design, and new media. The hope is that the synthesis of new media and arts could be utilized to diversify Macao’s economy, enhancing the development of the cultural and creative industry, and to ensure a sustainable competitive advantage for Macao towards a world-class tourism and leisure center.