In the series "Sea of Words" from 1990-91, May Stevens paintings present small boats gliding across a sea of words, "verbal ocean, waves of words...overlapping, interrupting and obscuring each other." For the artist using words "is like another tool, another color. Language becomes one of my main colors...language into visual forlm, poetry in the ambiguity of shapes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.