Soo Kau’s pictorial structure defies the conventional norm of picture making. He believes that colour and design is the basic content of his expression. His works transcends craft and vice-versa where he makes no distinction between the two. Instead his marriage of fine arts and applied arts gives new meaning and a refreshing look to art. It is Soo Kau’s intention to instigate that art too can be functional, in respect to wallpaper design, pottery, textile carpet design and of course batik. His paintings are abound with intricate patterned fabics. His fluid renderings of intertwining fabrics weaves and folds through his paintings like those of rhythmic gymnastics, which heightens the idea of his floating and bouncing fruits and objet d’arts. This created feel of “floatiness” in his subjects represents his own reaction to the alienating effects of a fast changing world. In this exhibition entitled “Integration”, Koay Soo Kau’s paintings are a delightful revelry of pictorial freedom, that is complex in composition and sophisticated and refined in his observation of life.