Words for Friends is a parlor game I play when I need inspiration. Diaristic and meditative at once, I painstakingly cut out the letters from titles in magazine articles and advertising–the more banal the better–and turn them into something contradictory or complimentary to the intended message/audience.
Sorry We’re Closed, Curdled Milk on Slate Gray, 2021-021Travel + Leisure (2x), Cherry Lipstick on Azure Skies, 2021-007Hail Mary, Ye Olde Font on Fire Engine Red, 2020-037Business Gets Ready to Trip, Dianetics on Sunflower, 2020-039Les Misérables, Brass Door-Knocker on Forest, 2020-050On View, Lawrence Weiner Blue on Cherry, 2020-040Suprasensorial, Goodwill on Sunflower, 2020-057World of Wheels, Screaming Deal on Green Crayon, 2020-080Like Ships in the Night, Bloomingdale on Fire Engine Red, 2020-069Flying Over Sunset, Fire Season on Electric Blue, 2020-048Video Contest!, True Blue on Tangerine, 2020-076We Have a Lot on our Plate, Newsprint on Fire Engine Red, 2020-058Non Toxic, Green Day on True Blue (It’s Operational, Downright Subliminal), 2016-095Estée Lauder, Gold on Turquoise, 2016-096New Yorker, Ink on Buttercup (You’ll Be Forgotten Soon), 2016-124What’s Gone Wrong with Democracy, Economist Red on Fallout Gray (Don’t Tell Me This Town Ain’t Got No Heart When I Can Hear it Beat Out Loud), 2014-157Décor, Black on Pink (Always On My Mind), 2013-491Be Ruthless, Gothic Black on Sunflower (While Swimming Around With Sharks, Keep Your Eyes Out on Your Heart), 2014-094The Evil that Men Do, Orange Crush on Sky Blue (Do I Have a Witness Here?), 2014-019Alladin, Gold on Crown Royale Purple, 2014-612The Gay Divide, Rainbow on Rosie Skies, 2014-614The Escape Artist, Blood on Midnight Blue, 2014-616Brooklyn, Enthusiastic Blue on Bugglegum (Is it Ever Going to Be Like It Should Be?), 2014-144
