Tsai presented his “Handprint Series” in his 2015 solo exhibition “Wandering in the Creative Play of Forms and Materials.” He often models hands with readymade in his daily life, but he doesn’t create life-size works. In his “Handprint Series,” some pieces highlight thick palms, whilst others foreground slim and extended fingers. In [Handprint I], the symbolic gesture of the hand at the center of the composition is reminiscent of a mudra. It is wound with linear materials. A line is connected to a towering lotus pod while another to a feather pointing to the left, amidst which the Buddha’s hand sits upright and still. Following his early experiments with mixed media, Tsai ingeniously connects a stationary sculpture having a fixed form and volume with a linear flow of non-linear vectors, so that the energy of the work can be effectively expanded and released into the entire exhibition space, showing the perfect balance between lightness and weight as well as between the real and the virtual in this work.