Chryssa drew her inspiration from images of modern life in big cities, focusing especially on the linguistic symbols of the consumer society dominating mass communication media, in printed forms and mostly on the big radiant signs. She heavily influenced the poetics of urban landscapes, especially by drawing inspiration from Chinese ideograms on the facades of China Town’s shops in New York. Her entire work is an intercultural study on the global message of sculpture and art, through the use of semantic images of advertising and of the mass media. It is a quest in the discursive relations between art and text.