This series of paintings, produced in 1997 for an exhibition in New York, chronicled found neologisms selected from widely available mass cultural sources within the calendar year. Terminology such as “Arbitrary Caste,” “Data Smog,” “Ear Candy,” “Fossil Poetry,” “Kleptocrats,” “Niche Aesthetics,” “Scud Memo,” and “Serial Overview” reflected a distinctly American nomenclature, a fugitive vernacular continually grafting and shifting with the social, political, and cultural drift. Within this collection of slang, euphemism, morpheme, and jargon there pervades an absurd manner of assigning meaning. At stake beyond this newer order of arbitrary relations and linguistic slippage is testament to a culture's systematized aspiration to globalize dialect in its own image.