Silvia Kolbowski attributes her ongoing interest in language to her uncompromising immersion in English at age six after she moved with her family from Buenos Aires to New York. Her work draws on theory—including feminism and psychoanalysis—as well as appropriation and the tradition of overtly political British photo-text work. Between 1982 and 1984 Kolbowski created eight multi-image artworks for her series Model Pleasure. In them, she interspersed text with images to suggest that every component, whether image or text, should be read.