Leandro Katz’s diverse work—which encompasses experimental films, sculptural installations, conceptual photography, and artist books—is unified by the idea of language as a point of intersection between social and cognitive operations. To create Word Column IV: Puno/Altamira, Katz attached a very long scroll of paper to a Royal model typewriter and proceeded to type words at random, resulting in a textual and sculptural representation of his stream of consciousness. The work evokes the notion of automatic typing, playing on the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing or writing, by which the artist engages in free-flowing mark making while clearing his or her conscious mind of extraneous thoughts; the method supposedly allows the maker to access his or her subconscious.