From a deconstruction of the cliche ‘a picture paints a thousand words’, the solo exhibition 1000 Words develops a linguistic and numeric narrative using the repeating frame of a square. Reduced to two words / numbers / symbols and a two-colour palette, each work conveys a verbal expression as a visual gesture. Presented in the last month of 1999, a time of heightened anxiety about the effects of digital technology and prophecies of a world ending, 1000 Words is a collection of notes on aesthetics and life at the turn of a century.