While growing up, Louis was already handcrafting toys with bamboo, while sketching and practicing arts organically from an early age. Throughout his thirty years career in contemporary arts, he has explored with media such as oil painting, chinese ink, various sculpting materials, and even merge performance art with wearable bamboo sculptures. Living on Cheung Chau island, he had the experience to master the making of mystical beasts bamboo sculptures, which also inspired Louis to adapt to his contemporary practice. With a deep understanding of the material he pushed the boundaries of the craft by bending the bamboo to the extreme (inspired by the fluidity of another heritage craft, candy sculpting) and invented formulas to make the materials, notably the paint and glue, waterproof and extremely durable. These new more contemporary materials - together with a new approach to the art form and its aesthetics enable these bamboo sculptures to have a new status and be conserved like artworks lasting for generations.

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The philosophy for Louis, who was part of the avant-garde early on (he was in the Inside Out show at MoMa in 1998-99) is to give a new life to heritage craft by adapting them to contemporary creation. Artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall themselves were giving crafts, like tapestry or stained glass, a new life in the 1950's and after. For Louis, the appreciation of the quality of the material, alive, flexible, strong yet light, goes hand in hand with the conceptual approach to his message: opening up the way culture and spirituality are regarded. The references in Louis's mind are more Cubism and Condo. Louis was influenced by Cubism, notably the deconstruction of figures, multiple planes and view from several angles. The three dimensionality and abstraction in his work is inspired by George Condo, among the contemporary artists. He also practices his work with the principles of the Yi Ching, or the philosophy and fluidity of tai chi. To Louis, such ideas are not disparate. Contemporary art challenges the way we understand the world around us, sometimes even ourselves. Louis immersed himself in the study of both Western art history and Chinese philosophy and culture. Louis blends them not from a technical point of view only, like many Western and Eastern modern and contemporary artists, but also from the conceptual perspective. Yet Louis' originality always carries a spontaneity and humour. 

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