| Abstract Forms Created by the Spelling of Words To generate abstract forms using the spelling of words, 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 lines are drawn which connect the letter-points in the sequence of the spelling of a word, an abstract form is produced. |
| The letter-points are not spaced equally around the circle (the spacing of the consonants is organized around an equal spacing of vowels) and 'E', rather than 'A', is at the top. Within the circle of 26 letter-points, there are 325 possible connecting lines (above), 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). The spelling of words is always used to generate the forms. When the 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. |
 |  |  |  |  |