Shipping to Taiwan records the process of collecting personal effects from 24 Taiwanese students who came to America to study, but now, having completed their courses, were returning home. The artwork proper is made up entirely of objects not small or valuable enough to be carried on plane or shipped via air, yet apparently too precious to be left behind.

Is this a metaphor for artworks that are not quite masterpieces in general, or is it a mere comment on our reluctance to let anything go?

In addition, through the normal shipping and freighting processes, the work raises the possibility that a work of art can be both conceptual and functional--that it need not be frozen in space and time in a gallery, but can actually serve some practical purpose in the world we live in.