About Words With Friends

Built from salvaged computer boards, thick layers of acrylic, and a meticulously constructed grid of charged words,
Words With Friends is not a puzzle to solve — it’s a trap to spring.

• Overlapping terms like divorce, bisexual, envy, and pray surface not as statements, but as collisions — intersections we all recognize but rarely say aloud.

• Circuit boards frame the emotional disconnect, suggesting how mechanized and routine even our deepest tensions have become.

• Heavy, viscous brushstrokes interrupt the sterile grid, hinting at the volatile, repressed emotions roiling beneath sanitized language.

• But unlike traditional protest art,
  Words With Friends doesn’t preach.
  It simply waits — a silent provocation.

• Your reaction — discomfort, anger, amusement, or indifference — becomes part of the work itself.

“I don’t apologize,” Barry says.
“I want someone to react.”

In this piece, saying nothing is a reaction too.
The words are already there.
It’s the viewer who’s exposed.