In making her installations, Lau focuses on creating an environment for people to learn about her culture. Hakka (客家, meaning “guest people'') is an ethnically undefined subethnic group of Chinese. Indigenous to (but not confined to) Hong Kong, the Hakka, are known for their resilience and migratory aptitude due to sixteen centuries of persecution and displacement.

Despite its historically feminist roots, the Hakka culture has adopted the male-dominated Confucian customs over time. She is Continuing Our Lineage seeks to undercut these adopted norms narratives and celebrate the artist’s matriarchal herritage. This work is inspired by the intricate weaving characteristics of the ‘liangmao’ and ‘fai tai’ (woven bamboo hat and headband) worn by Hakka women who traditionally worked alongside men in construction, roadwork, excavation, mining, and farming. Lau’s choice of diverse industrial material for weaving in intended to acknowledge women’s contributions in these typically male-oriented fields. Lau’s take on tradition requires slow, laborious movements of twisting, stretching, and threading sharp and challenging materials to create delicate and beautiful textures that embody the different facets of her ancestry.