[4] In 1988, she set up Forbidden Building, an installation where she invited others to collect dead leaves to fill a large structure of chain-link fence and scaffolding nearby Ruggles station.
[2][6] In 1991, she did an installation at the Massachusetts College of Art, named On the Path, where she "links her Japanese father's enslavement to the Emperor with the slavery of the American South".
[2][8] In 1994, her installation Multicultural Diplomats, where 40,000 inflated medical gloves, containing pieces of paper with the dreams of other people who wrote them down at her request, would be hung from the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, was exhibited at the Arts Festival of Atlanta.
[9][10] On 17 September, Multicultural Diplomats was destroyed, alongside a majority of the building, when an arsonist ignited a fire by spilling kerosene across all three floors above ground.
[11] Artforum said that her 1995 exhibition Dawn: Transformation of Zero at Capp Street Project "examined our complex relationship with money".