Sophie Woelfling is an artist from Brooklyn, New York. Working with a range of mediums, she explores language and writing as tools of communication/deliverers of understanding—specifically when these tools/deliverers fail to fulfill their design—creating confusion rather than comprehension.

Utilizing recognizable writing conventions but obscuring or eliminating meaning and legibility, her work creates an experience of simultaneous recognition/unrecognition: a deceptive appearance of decipherability. These scripts and symbols present themselves as such, but refuse to be read—calling the experience of unknowing into investigation.

Her thesis research has centered theoretical and personal investigations into language, meaning, and the act of writing.