Comparing with the home-deco style of his wall-mounted works, Tsai’s another type of object-based landscaping is relatively large in scale that dominates a whole area. Take the work [View from Desktop] (2008) in his 2009 solo exhibition “The Great Form without Shape” for example. This work stretches horizontally with two mutually connected long desks, on which lie the dead branches and the calligraphic works by Lee Yih-Hong. The sole vertical visual attraction comprises a withered lotus pod and leaves in a pot of charcoal at the junction of the two desks. Tsai constructed a view of a literati desk on which the calligraphic works lie scattered together with a deliberately arranged potted plant. In the elapsing of time, the calligraphic works remain on the desk, whereas the plant wilts. The passage of time brings about changes, but it seems that there is still something that can be left intact.
