While Greenwalt's sculpturally rendered figures appear to float in quite isolation within a disarticulated pictorial space, Ono's proverb inspired calligraphy intertwine to form a dynamic sculptural web almost concealing the original text within her densely interconnected masses. Both artists are engaged in a process of continuously evolving visual thought, forming, deforming and reforming imagery until Culture (in Ono's case) and Nature (in Greenwalt's case) transcend and re-shape ordinary expectations. Ono's Words (words normally separated in texts) are compressed into a singular dense cluster while Greenwalt's figures (persons normally contextualized within living communities) are treated as dislocated specimens in an insect collection. While Ono's literary content reference a personal landscape of love, struggle, and philosophy of living in a foreign land, Greenwalt's animated effigies reference our creative, scientifically enlightened humanity, doomed like all generations to inevitable physical decay - rescued by growth, in spirit and wisdom.

Both artists explore their ideas via the medium of graphite. Representing one of the four pure forms of carbon, graphite expresses elemental permanency. By contrast, traditional drawing processes suggest ephemerality through the temporal arrangement of graphite dust on surfaces executed by brief lives operating within fleeting cultures.