Tsai Pou-Ching's recent practices often encompassed bird forms. However, birds are not his focus per se, but rather the relationship between humans and animals. As animals, humans can't be isolated from the world. Indeed, in today's world, humans have developed highly complex survival networks and relationships with animals. Therefore, thinking about the exceptional human relationship with animals seems more necessary now than ever.
The three birds presented in Tsai Pou-Ching's works are the Great Red Woodpecker, Blue Peacock, and Mountain Sparrow. They are representations of wild animals, captive animals, and settlement animals, respectively. Therefore, through science, mysticism, field research, workshops, art production methods and ecological conservation, Tsai Pou-Ching proposes a novel relationship between humans and animals from the past to the present. Indeed, his art, as social participation, provides the possibility of in-depth connections with natural world.
