These works are the result of an ongoing inquiry into the integration of text within the picture plane, and by extension, of language within the visual sphere. Here the individual letters are treated as physical, material, visual elements, reduced to their form and divested of their role in meaning-making. In isolation, they become functionless signifiers cut off from any signified, powerless bare bones, mere sticks and stones.
In this sense, these works imply a reversal of the childhood maxim: ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.’