“When I was invited to exhibit in Taipei, besides telling my experience of leaving my hometown, I wondered: If I were to create a work for this city, what would it be? My mind went straight to 黃公望 Huang Gongwang’s 《富春山居圖》“Dwelling in Fuchun Mountains”, a 14th-century masterpiece split between two places—Mainland China and Taipei. Its divided journey struck me.

To my surprise, the original painting “Dwelling in Fuchun Mountains” was announced for exhibition at the Taipei National Palace Museum during my solo in Taipei. And life kept layering on coincidences. On the morning of October 26, I hopped into an Uber numbered 1997—the year that reshaped my hometown, Hong Kong—and headed to the National Palace Museum. Just before filming my visit to the museum, a bus rolled by with “FAA” on the body, the course code of my Fine Arts department back at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where I had my first formal Chinese Art Education.

Inside, not only was “Dwelling in Fuchun Mountains” on view, 盧鴻 Lu Hong’s《草堂十志圖》“Ten Views from a Thatched Hut” was also being displayed in the same room—the very print I once pinned in my Vancouver studio while imagining a life lived quietly, away from society, had I never moved to Canada.

When I returned to Vancouver, I discovered the other half of “Dwelling in Fuchun Mountains” was being exhibited in Zhejiang Provincial Museum.”

- Excerpted from Lam Tung Pang’s remarks upon the opening of Everyone’s journey toward faith is different, October 23, 2025