The photograph depicts a wood flatwear box with an open drawer that is filled with printed words. The inside lid contains adverbs, the top drawer nouns and the bottom drawer verbs. Karen Shaw's name is rubberstamped on the verso of the card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Shaw uses a mathematical system of linguistics that she calls "summatics" based upon assigning a number for each letter of the alphabet, e.g. A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. The sum of numbers can then equal word(s). The visual poems use this system to convert found numbers into words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Shaw uses a mathematical system of linguistics that she calls "summatics" based upon assigning a number for each letter of the alphabet, e.g. A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. The sum of numbers can then equal word(s). The visual poems use this system to convert found numbers into words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.