For more than three decades Kay Rosen has worked on concepts such as language and perception, employing linguistics and irony to reveal contents that are hidden in the structure of words. Rosen's strategy is the play and manipulation of words to explore the visual and formal possibilities of language—typography, color, font size—and its social, cultural and political potential. Influenced by conceptual art, Rosen's work forces the public to question the way we approach written language and interpret it. Three of her works are included in the collection. "The Pen is Mightier" references the famous phrase The pen is mightier than the sword. To visualize it, Rosen chooses a dialogue from Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which Polonius asks: What do you read, my lord? And Hamlet responds: words, words, words. A black and white photograph of actor Mel Gibson playing Hamlet accompanies the text. Another work by Rosen is "Hi" (English colloquial form of hello). Here Rosen creates a clever visual and linguistic game showing us how this word appears naturally in the alphabet. Finally, "O is for Olive", in which Rosen has engraved the letter "o" on cocktail glasses, to create a humorous and absurd moment around everyday objects.