World And Words typifies Dedy Sufriadi’s Hypertext series, where text is less read than seen. Letters, phrases and asemic scribbles scatter across the canvas, at times surfacing as recognisable words (“world”, “word”) only to dissolve back into abstraction. Thick impasto, overlaid marks and graffiti-like doodles generate a restless surface, one that recalls both Basquiat’s pictographic energy and Indonesian expressionist traditions. For Sufriadi, writing functions as image: language fragments become colour, gesture and texture, creating a palimpsest of meanings without resolution. The work sits within the artist’s sustained interrogation of semiotics and communication. Viewers are invited to “read” the painting but must navigate it intuitively, assembling fragments into their own narrative. That indeterminacy is deliberate: Sufriadi has described his practice as guided by “spontaneous emotional scratches”, privileging immediacy over fixed message. World And Words exemplifies how his art turns text into material, blurring the boundary between meaning and mark.