Using letters of the alphabet as his visual and textual source, Hill "draws" relationships between linguistics and video by mapping a short narrative that ends with a structural joke. A didactic voiceover describes a quality shared by four letters: H, I, O and X. Whether they are written upside down or backwards, their readability is essenially unchanged. During this description, words appear on the screen referring to video, narrative and pictorial representation, and the text collapses into horizontal and vertical lines. At the end of the tape, the four letters are used to draw an image of an ox. The letters thus form the basis for both a story and a picture.
