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.
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These six foot high letters formed from punctured plastic piping would shake, rock and roll as the many thin streams of water coursed through—to iconic word sculptures, six foot high, which spelled “HE” or “SHE” in gleaming metal in three dimensions. The materials included thin aluminum surfaces, silk screened with airplane construction drawings from an aerospace company in San Diego, which inspired a three dimensional word poem of the single word “LIFT” composed of this metal material called “airplane lofting.”