The idea was to approach literature visually, learning from the language of notation systems and visual configurations of information. Beginning with analyzing text as a mapping exercise meant translating written language into visual language ‘points’ and therefore into a graphic notation system. By composing a graphic language specific to a text one may 'read' the narrative by visual aid.

The work takes inspiration from the 1884 novel Flatland; A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott. First published under the pseudonym ‘A. Square’, Flatland has maintained a scientific following for over a century, and seen translations of the text in Dutch, German, Italian, French, Russian Spanish, Japanese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Catalan, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Finnish and Turkish, as well as various English and American editions. Visual literacy, rather than being language based, opens us up to ways we take in information that is presented to us. The constructed grid in this project is based on the variables of X, Y and Z (3rd Dimension of Space). This linear though flexible grid took influence from the reading of a music staff, and so this creation was dubbed the ‘Axis Stave’. As with a music score the ‘Axis Stave’ provides a left to right navigational sequence, about which the notational elements move upon, and within, the score.