Since 2006 I have been generating a drawing series entitled Sounds that Words Make. The works involve a highly ordered and systematic listing of my own invented words in order of appearance. Words are composed by me in distinct series (j words, l words) and listed within a grid structure as drawings in pen and ink on paper. The invented words reveal an erratic but rigorous strategy of invention, each functioning as transcriptions or scores of performed composition. In essence, these drawings are performance documents that serve as coping mechanisms: active foils to the standardized operations of ordered time and functional language. Each drawing is a proposition for a continual deferral of meaning: a systematic generation of visual information that resists resolution or measurement.