"On the street's surface, the bus passes through all the neighborhoods, with their color, character and charm providing a visual collage of the city."

The festive choreographic collage will be enhanced by visual collages created by JEAN DE BOYSSON, a video artist.

Hosler created the bulk of its audio content as well as the visual collages and assemblages of found objects that are pictured in the liner notes.

He often treats the records in unusual ways, for example, he has physically cut up a group of records and stuck them together, making both a visual and aural collage.

Comics, always an ideal form for visual collage, here become vehicles for self-consciously gathered iconic samples.

The complex visual collages reflect a deep-rooted and often manic exploration of the structure of emotions and the interstices of the mind.

Along with bill bissett and bpNichol, he was a pioneer of the concrete poetry movement in Canada, and perhaps the first Canadian poet to explore visual collage embodying literary, philosophical and language references.

The series features artwork from a collection of visual collages created by Masami Akita from 1982-83.

Just as he created visual collages about the African-American experience, Ms. Featherstone, a poet, will make verbal ones.

"The whole program will be a visual collage," said Leigh Blake, who is co-producing the special with Debbie Mason for Initial Film and Television.