2,000 pieces of white porcelain formed into letters of the English alphabet, and components of Chinese characters, are suspended from the ceiling of the museum. Liu, one of China's best-known contemporary ceramic sculpture artists, provides only the building blocks of words, leaving it to viewers to create meaning. The artwork's location is carefully chosen as the space offers an opportunity for dialogue with the original engraved literary quotations on the walls, dating to the building's previous incarnation as San Francisco's Main Library.