LOIS, which stands for Linguistic Operative Illustration System, is a traveling participatory workshop and exhibition. LOIS aims to show audiences that there is purpose, thought, and method behind the simple shapes, compositions, and ways of making for modern and conceptual fine artists. LOIS works by inviting users to input a message, which is then translated into a set of symbols and printed onto a tapestry using a large scale drawing machine. The tapestries are hung in the exhibition space, where visitors may contemplate and translate the submissions.