Alan Lau Book Release Party & Signing: “This Single Road: Postcards and Notebooks from Kyoto”

With his solo exhibition of paintings made in Kyoto as the backdrop, Alan Lau will read selected passages from his new book, accompanied by a soundscape performance by Susie Kozawa. Copies of the book can be purchased at the gallery or on Entre Ríos Books’ website. This event is free and open to the public.

In “This Single Road”, poet and painter Alan Chong Lau opens his Kyoto journals to us — inexpensive pocket notebooks filled with quick sketches, poems, and fragments of daily life. Many of these moments return as watercolor postcards sent to friends, so what begins in private observation becomes a quiet act of generosity, a way of keeping connection alive through art. Echoing the haibun tradition of Bashō and Santōka, “This Single Road” is less a travelogue than a record of engagement — intimate and playful — a lifelong conversation with place, with practice, and with Kazuko, his companion in life and art.