This ongoing series of archival inkjet digital prints, collectively called conTEXTuals, employs words as though they were paint. Besides the obvious formal qualities inherent in paint — color, style, stroke and composition — texts can also add context, meaning, irony, argument and a host of other verbal properties as well. While writing usually creates pictures by way of storytelling, creative typography can allow even the most mundane text to convey an attitude and tell a tale, just as the physicality of the paint often makes its own statement in a painting. Of course, context is everything in both situations.