Made in 1972, Vision Fixed is a concrete poem that takes the form of a typescript. It begins with lines listing various qualities of vison: “Vision Fixed / Vision Concentrated / Vision Demarcated / Vision Located / Vision Concretized / Vision Re-focused / Vision Circumscribed.” The sixteen lines resonate with her Locators, sculptures that define vision through a circle, drawing attention to the processes of seeing, and with the careful framing of vision in her photoworks.

Holt would develop Vision Fixed into her contribution to the catalogue for c.7,500—a landmark exhibition curated by Lucy Lippard in 1973 at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). It featured the work of twenty-six artists who Lippard describes were all “women artists who make Conceptual art, but whose work has nothing else in common.” It was accompanied by a catalogue consisting of double-sided index cards designed by the artists, and a short text by Lippard printed on the cards. Holt chose Vision Fixed for one side of her index card, while the other presented part of a photocollage where Holt views the corner of St. Marks Place and Second Avenue in the East Village, New York City through her signature circle.