Karen Shaw
Everything I Know About the Number 112 Linguistically Speaking

Above the stairwell, Karen Shaw placed a chart of numerical equivalences for the alphabet. Following this, words numerically equivalent to 112 were pinned down like insects under glass on a thin board which ran along the molding above the wainscoting of the gallery walls.

Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.