Word of Mouth began with Julie’s image ‘putting words in my mouth’, Anne responded wearing a black covid mask with typed words attached, Julie said Anne looked like a terrorist! We’d talked about using AI to generate some images and Anne started down that path. We agreed to focus on the mouth. Anne used ChatGPT to make images of words going into and between mouths but was getting bored when Julie sent pictures of a Basquiat collage/painting hanging from the ceiling in an exhibition she visited as an idea for a ’look’ and ‘form’ for our work. We agreed that two double-sided hanging banners was the go. This inspired chalk drawings and text images from Anne and the work for Switch started to emerge. In the final collage Julie proposed that the ‘performative’ nature of the text and the images suggested a riotous blend of each collaborators’ contributions. Anne added that it’s a kind of psycho-babble of noise punctuating a void.