"The inner world of Lawrence McLaughlin's sculpture is made apparent through the interplay of the senses.  They carry the eye, the instrument of optical awareness, on their chest and it draws us to look towards the middle, to the heart.  In the deepest and most comprehensive sense, the eye is the medium of vision, symbol of all clear knowledge.  The head becomes superfluous and, as with the "Little Prince", the figure appears to remind us that we can only see properly with the heart.  McLaughlin's sculptures have a soul.  They show us their innermost being.  They are transparent.  The eyes are made of glass and glass s the symbol of light, of transparency."

 

- Marianne Mittelholzer Leuenberger, Gallery in der Loft, Dietlikon Zürich