These artworks showcase a variable personal coding system used to generate works whose subject is language, materiality, and translation. The system is based on square modules and employs a simple transposition code: it borrows the first letter of the color or material of each module of the composition to represent a letter. For example, colors like sage or salmon, or materials like sandpaper or slate, can all stand for the letter S. The artworks mix aspects of monochrome painting, crossword puzzles, hardware store displays, and acrostics, in an expedition to the arcane hinterlands of form and meaning. They are abstract artworks which contain encoded language—a type of modular lingua franca. The intention is for these pieces to function as cohesive visual equations even if the viewer is unaware that language is embedded within them.