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Early Works

Language Images

In my early works, words and language are both subject and image. Such “Language Images” are of continuing interest to me, as are visual symbols, and calligraphies. Early works included letter and word sculptures, for both interior and exterior sites from random arrays of small plastic letters strewn across fields as if remnants of a discarded language, to shimmying word fountains. more...

Click below to see early public projects:

  • Language Images
  • The Namewall, 1974
  • Charity Namewall
  • We the People, 1974-76
  • Waters of the Nation/
    Messages From The World

  • The Odyssey of the Messenger 1975-1990
    • The Lady and The Bird
    • Wingtrace/The Sign of Its Track
    • Op Wieken/Into Flight
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