Stop Transition – in Warehouse is the concluding piece to TRANSITION. The multi-component work takes its name from the fact that a warehouse is simultaneously a storage space for goods, a forwarding post to other parts of the world, as well as a turning point in my own development as an artist.

The most representative component of Stop Transition – in Warehouse is probably Shipping to Taiwan. It records the process of collecting personal effects from Taiwanese students who had come to America to study, and now were returning home after graduation. The artwork itself is made up entirely of objects not small or valuable enough to be carried onboard a plane or shipped via air by these students, yet apparently too precious for them to leave behind.

Through the normal shipping and freighting processes, the work also 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.