When You Make No Art is a collection of writings and impressions by Wen-You Cai, daughter of acclaimed artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Her writing, accompanied by photographs mostly from her own personal archive, details life growing up in the art world and her upbringing by her father. Witty and honest, Wen-You Cai writes about the particularities of her own life without losing their universal resonances.