Works spanning 1990 through 1995 focused primarily on the impact linguistic thought and experience has on design, perception, and understanding; the slippery attributes of the signifying chain; and the discourse between utility, naming, and being.

A central concern involved the direct experience of the artwork at face value. Within this context I attempted to employ the use of double entendre, tertiary reading, removed significance, the depiction of literal meaning and misinterpretation, and the formation of metaphor and idiom into tangible form and experience.

This was the longest running single project to date involving exhibitions Figure of Speech as well as Daisy Chain and Rim Shots both in Los Angeles and New York. For the benefit of archiving, this project is divided into three general categories: Hyperbole- extended interpretation and poetic license, Verbatim- literal meaning and misinterpretation, and Last Work (1994- ).