One group of drawings with letters in grids presents statements about stream dynamics. While I draw (or write?), I'm almost reversing how meanings form in writing, breaking apart lettering that's meant to flow together. The format has precedents in Greek and early Common Era writing where punctuation and spaces had not yet come into use. These drawings also return to a personal childhood, when letters and words were awkward shapes with obscure meanings. The drawings ask viewers to piece meaning together from individual letters just as researchers take whole landscapes into parts for study, then reassemble connections through careful analysis. Despite all its fancy word use and technology, there is childlike openness in science too, where questions emerge from a combination of wonder and urgency to connect.