Noted for his connection to the Fluxus movement, Hompson frequently used text in a visual form in posters, pamphlets, artists’ books, mail art and other constructions. His conversational exchanges in large-sized and blocky format with the descriptions of the scene standing in for the images themselves, offered vivid snippets of language that feel partial or overheard.  His self-appointed artist name (Born David E. Thompson) was equally an engagement with the meaning and structures attached to language in that it was a transposition of the letters of his name.