Numbers, symbols, and letters circulate through daily life as systems of order, instruction, measurement, and belief. However, when detached from their intended functions, characters shift from language into shape—from carriers of information into visual actors.

Praxis seeks work that frames, isolates, interrupts, or recombines numbers, symbols, and letters—whether deliberately composed or discovered through chance. These approaches produce images that surprise, amuse, or operate as visually compelling forms without requiring fixed interpretation.​

Submissions should emphasize organization, rhythm, scale, or spatial relationships over readability or meaning. Word-based imagery, slogans, and textual content are welcome—but the focus of this exhibition is not what characters say, but how they behave once freed from the work of saying. All lens-based artwork is welcome.

Juror: Dallas Crow is a teacher, photographer, and writer who lives in Atlanta. He has had work in juried shows in Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, Halifax (Canada), Athens (Greece), and Tokyo (Japan). In addition, his solo exhibition of photographs from the 49th parallel, "The Other Border," was mounted at Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis in the fall of 2018, and in the spring of 2021 he had another solo exhibition, "Thankful for the Blues," at Space Place Gallery in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. He has also juried multiple shows at Praxis.​

His writing has appeared in numerous periodicals. His first poetry chapbook, Small, Imperfect Paradise, was published by Parallel Press, and another, Troutwatching, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.