屮 is a site-specific installation made with more than 2,000 loaves of baguette (blackery). These are nailed to the museum wall, with each blackery taking the place of a Chinese calligraphic brushstroke, so that the resulting image at once pays homage to an ancient Chinese art form and "updates" it, bringing it into the 21st century.

In addition, the work also makes full use of the Chinese script's often close resemblance to the objects they depict (it is for this reason that Chinese characters are often called "pictograms").

The title,屮 --a now-obsolete Chinese word meaning "spring sprout"--is used here not only for its literal meaning, but also for its shape. The word looks like the word for "mountain" ( shan in Chinese, which happens to be one of the words in my name), with its three vertical bars that suggest stylized mountain peaks. But it also contains a downward stroke that figuratively gives the mountain its "root," thus turning the "mountain" into a "spring sprout."