My work from 1980 to the present is based on mapping from the literal (words) to the visual (shapes). I take as my starting point an arbitrary operation performed on the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet -- placing them in a circle with identical spacing between the letters. This produces a "letterwheel" -- an arbitrary device for taking letters of the alphabet as its input and transforming them into geometrical shapes as its output. The choice of words, color, interior structure, etc. provide additional layers of complexity and "free play".