The basic operation of visual linguistic abstraction takes place on the sampling level. Visual-linguistic abstraction is another name for visual poetry. An intermediary interweaving between poetry and visual art intensifies the receiver’s awareness that language is a form, which can be transformed and manifested in many different ways.

For their construction, the basic structures of visual-linguistic abstraction use elements of both media practices, such as:

• samples of a lower order, letters as well as language loops, punctuation marks.
• samples of a higher order, words, which can also be the construction material for visual poetry but only as a simultaneous verbal, vocal and visual positional value, and never as a sequential attractor structure.
• the construction material of visual linguistic abstraction can also be non-linguistic sign material, which replaces language information.
• visual forms, lines, colours, dimensionalities, and all other information that is able to articulate complex combinations should also play a role.