Willem Boshoff’s interest in the relationship between word and image goes back to the early-1980s when he published his now famous book, KykAfrikaans, full of visual, or concrete poetry. The art of it resides in the fact that words become a visual language, not just alphabetical symbols for abstract concepts or physical objects. In the lithograph on the left, Boshoff chooses an obscure word and ‘’writes out’’ definitions of it across the picture plane, creating a fine network of lines and textures. In making these lines Boshoff uses a letter press for the language that runs over the lithograph beneath it. The print on the right is sheer texture created with jumbled up words.