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Abstract Forms Created by the Spelling of Words

To create word-images, the 26 letters of the Roman Alphabet are treated as a
circular arrangement of 26 points--each point represents the location of a specific
letter. When the points are connected in the sequence of the spelling of a word, an
abstract form is generated.
The letter-points are not spaced equally around the circle (the spacing of the
consonants is organized around an equal spacing of the vowels) and 'E', rather
than 'A', is at the top. Within the circle of 26 letter-points, there are 325 possible
connecting lines, which in combination can produce millions of forms. The design
of the circle of letter-points always remains the same (the same configuration of
letter-points has been the basis of the project since its inception in 1980) and the
spelling of words is always used to generate the forms. When the word-images
or spelled-forms are reproduced in drawings, books, paintings, intermedia works,
and mixed-media installations; the configurations are never altered but certain
aspects of their design are sometimes enhanced. The spelled-forms of
thousands of words in more than a dozen languages have been explored.
from "Word Works ( Part 2)",
intermedia work, 1987.