I attempt through the cyanotype on a porcelain slab to show the original state of some objects and creatures, such as tobacco, cola, cows, hops, domestic cats, and cocoa beans, but embedded in a small box of pictures. Among them are their corresponding artificial items such as e-cigarettes, zero-degree colas, artificial beef, non-alcoholic beer, hairless cat and zero-calorie chocolate. The existence of these objects implies an inherent logic: people want something, but actually only want "good things" which are consistent with their fantasy, but not "it" completely. Because of the nature of the object of desire, it often brings trouble and distress to people's fantasies and even fundamental harm. Today's decaffeinated coffee is not exactly the product produced to satisfy such a logic of desire? This "coffee" itself is the "good thing" that completely removes the essence of coffee: an X without X (coffee without caffeine). If we pay more attention to daily life, we will find that we are surrounded by such products today, and their essence-their defining characteristics-are all excluded, which is not exactly a series of X items without X ?
