Liu is attracted to mediums that seem “thin” – paintings on paper, video, music, and performances – forms that express material impermanence. This is related to her interest in propaganda, posters, and sloganeering – manmade objects whose authority is subject to the transit of history, prone to divergent swings in meaning. Their instability further reveals the intrinsic, intimate connection between social policy and desire. Originating fantasies – about national, gender, and economic identities – can be warped and juxtaposed in ways that reveal unexpected convergences. “Minor stories”, such as safety tutorials, meat manufacture, and small objects of feminized hygiene - reveal the nuances of the “major stories” of globalization, the interlocking systems of the exploitation of female labor.